Representatives of the Kyiv Patriarchate prevent the UOC community of Kuty form performing worship.

April 20, 2016. On April 17 in Kuty, a town of Shumsk region in Ternopil, representatives of Kyiv Patriarchate prevented the UOC community’s access to the articles needed for performing worship, a member of the Union of Orthodox Journalists reports.

According to the church priest Igor Kushniruk, after the first worship in an equipped tent performed a day before, it was decided to realize a Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick on Sunday. Forty people were willing to participate in the sacrament. The warden of the church, Nikolay Voznyuk and his son wanted to take some articles needed for the performance of the worship form the church lodge located within the territory of the church. However, representatives of the Kyiv patriarchate leaded by Yaroslav Misiychuk blocked the exit from the street with their cars and called the police. After having received the explanations the police officers recommended that all the articles be returned were they were taken until the resolution of the conflict and so was done.

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the community could not perform its service for a long time as the local church in honor of Holy Righteous Anna became the object of raid schemes of the local self-proclaimed Kiev Patriarchate community. Their representatives block the entrance to the church area.

In order to resume the worships, the UOC community erected a donated military tent in the yard of a parishioner’s home, where their first liturgy was celebrated on the holyday of the Praise to the Mother of God on April 16.

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