In Volhynia, nationalists with Filaretists staged a pogrom in the house of a priest of the UOC
Nationalists and representatives of the unrecognized UOC “Kyiv Patriarchate” in the Orthodox world broke into the house of a UOC priest in the village of Gribovitsa, Volyn region, and carried out a pogrom there in front of the inactive police.
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The speaker of the Volyn diocese of the UOC, Archpriest Oleg Tochinsky, announced this in his blog.
The Filaretites, who seized the UOC church in the village of Gribovitsa in the fall of 2015, repeatedly made attempts to evict the local priest from the house built by the Holy Intercession Community of the UOC. This year, the Gribovitsky Village Council refused to formalize the ownership of the land on which the house was built for Archpriest Igor Margita. Today, the court was supposed to consider his claim to the local authorities, but the meeting was postponed, and the nationalists, without waiting for the decision of Themis, broke into the premises and began to take out the things of the priest.
“Friends, we ask for prayer support! Now, at these moments, in the village of Gribovitsa, Ivanichevsky district, Volyn region (Vladimir-Volyn diocese of the UOC), supporters of the Kyiv Patriarchate are attempting to seize a residential building in which a UOC priest and his family live. The schismatics broke into the house! They're taking things out! The police are watching,” Tochinsky wrote on his blog.
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