Kyiv, February 25 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - The Brotherhood of the Pochaev Lavra, which is located in the Ternopil region and maintains unity with the Moscow Patriarchate, declares a threat of capture.
«Several buses with people arrived in Pochaev. The brethren closed the gates of the Lavra to entry. The brethren, seminarians and all the pilgrims who are now in the Lavra came to the gates to pray,” reports the Orthodoxy in Ukraine portal.
Metropolitan Sergius of Ternopil clarified that the day before, at a rally in Ternopil, “there were calls to return the Pochaev Lavra to the Ukrainian people.” “Our people will rise to defend the shrine - and this will be a huge conflict. Who needs this? – added the bishop.
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“People are determined to protect the shrine. They pray and hope that the events of the 90s will not be repeated,” Archpriest Valentin Marchuk, press secretary of the Volyn diocese, noted in a comment to the publication.