May 18, 2020. After being beaten up by a soldier who was systematically involved in anti-church actions, the defender of the cathedral in Sumy dies without coming out of coma. On the night of May 14, 2020, Anatoly Borisenko, who served as the head of the security service of the Transfiguration Cathedral and the Sumy Diocesan Administration of the UOC, […]
» Read moreMay 16, 2020. After leaving the police station, Bp. Joanikije thanked the faithful at the courthouse who’d come to show support and love and called everyone for peace and respect. On May 16, 2020, at about 0:30, the hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Bishop Joanikije (Micovic) of Budimlja-Niksic, and eight priests of the Cathedral of St. Basil were released from prison, in which […]
» Read moreMay 8, 2020. The Abbot of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Paul (Lebed) of Vyshgorod and Chornobyl, filed a lawsuit with the Kyiv-Pechersk court against Channel 5, the website of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra reports. Yelena Isaevskaya, the lawyer of Metropolitan Paul, stated that the lawsuit has to do with the dissemination of false information about the alleged calls of […]
» Read moreMay 6, 2020. The head of the Mission for Family Affairs of the UOC Synodal Department, Metropolitan Panteleimon (Povorozniuk) of Rovenki and Sverdlovka commented on the bill amending the Criminal Code of Ukraine on crimes motivated by gender intolerance on the Mission’s website. The hierarch of the UOC explained that this bill is of concern to the Church as it […]
» Read moreMay 5, 2020. On the night of May 4, activists of the OCU took advantage of the difficult situation in the family of the rector of the UOC church in honor of the Archangel Michael in Zadubrivka (Ukraine) and made an attempt to seize the church. After the lights were turned off in the village, the cleric of the OCU […]
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