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Radicals seize another Ukrainian Orthodox Church

February 11, 2017 Ukraine

February 11, 2017. Representatives of so-called “Kiev Patriarchate,” with the support of “Right Sector” radicals seized a canonical parish of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in the village of Kotyuzhyny, in the Ternopil region, as reports pravoslavie.ru website. The site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s Information-Educational Synodal Department reports that the takeover of the Church of Protomartyr Stephen went […]

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The Greek Orthodox Church continues to protest the compulsory teaching of new approaches to gender in schools

February 10, 2017 Greece

February 10, 2017 – The Greek Orthodox Church continues to protest the teaching of the “Body and identity” week in schools, in which one of the subjects is tolerance to homosexuality and transsexuality. The “thematic week”, which created numerous protests among teachers, was discussed during a session of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece. The High Priesthood made […]

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Orthodox Christians had their worship disrupted by an organized picket

February 10, 2017 Russia

February 10, 2017 – About 15 to 20 people began to actively take photos during Orthodox worship inside the Isaakevsky Cathedral in St. Petersburg (Russia), which attracted the attention of the church attendees. The picketers proceeded to create a single line on the Western side of the Cathedral, raising placards with individual letters, which read, “The museum belongs to the […]

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The Bulgarian Patriarch showed solidarity with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in defending the rights of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine

February 10, 2017 Ukraine

February 10, 2017 – The Patriarch Neophyte has stated that the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is praying for peace in Ukraine, and has expressed support and deep compassion for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) in its time of trial. With the blessing of his Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphriy of Kiev and all Ukraine, the Chief Administrator of the […]

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Police keep back statistics on religious hate crimes in Ukraine

February 9, 2017 Ukraine

February 9, 2017. An actual number of offences with regard to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church exceed those offered by the law enforcement, as reports the Union of the Orthodox Journalists. At the beginning of February the Central Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine published the results of the law enforcement bodies’ activity over the last year. Inter alia, […]

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