March 28, 2017 – The highest judicial body of the Ukrainian judicial system ruled in favor of the parishioners of the Holy Transfiguration Church of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of Ivano-Frankivsk, reports the website of the diocese. The court found the claims of officials to believers unfounded. Since November 2016, the executive committee of the City Council of […]
» Read moreMarch 28, 2017 – In March 2017, the regional (oblast) court of Lipetsk (Russia) has handed out a guilty verdict to a 24-year old resident of Engels (Saratov oblast), named Alexander Adrianov, and to an 18 year-old resident of Lipetsk Pavel Shavrin. The resident of Engels is guilty under Article 115.2 b),c) of Penal Code of Russian Federation – “Intentional […]
» Read moreMarch 27, 2017 – Archimandrite Ephraim (Kutsu), abbot of Vatopedi Monastery on Mt. Athos, and thirteen other defendants were acquitted last week in a case concerning a land exchange between the Greek government and the monastery. The case dragged on for many years and saw Elder Ephraim spending three months in jail from December 2011 to March 2012. A few […]
» Read moreMarch 27, 2017 – It has been more than three months since the representatives of the Kiev Patriarchate ignore the decision of the Superior Agricultural Court of Ukraine, which gave a verdict of eviction. Furthermore, the executive authorities does not allow believers to worship in their rightful place of cult. They are not taking proper action to enforce the court’s […]
» Read moreMarch 23, 2017 – The press release of Constantinople Patriarchate on the occasion of the meeting of Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman and Patriarch Bartholomew does not contain pledges to ensure assistance in the creation of “one church” in Ukraine. it is testified by the document’s translation from the Greek language, performed by the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ). […]
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