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"Every man for himself". These are the words that can briefly characterize what is happening now in the canonical UOC. This is exactly the position observed by part of the highest bishops in relation to their brothers, priests, monks and flocks, to monasteries and parishes. There are, of course, exceptions to the rule: one can cite remarkable cases when the clergy comes to the aid of their subordinates...
As you know, last week the Athonite kinot (the executive body of the monastic republic) sent a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, in which it asked to take action in connection with the outrages of representatives of the schismatic “Holy Church of Ukraine” (“SCU”) created by Petro Poroshenko. Afonites were outraged that the “HCU” delegation led by “Metropolitan Mykhail of Lutsk” came to the holy place with Ukrainian flags,...
The “local” Ukrainian Orthodox Church, after Bartholomew’s provision of the tomos, according to Ukrainian experts, should be headed by the head of the non-canonical “Kyiv Patriarchate” Filaret. At the same time, Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko), considered the informal head of the “autocephalous lobby” in the canonical Orthodox Church, received the least number of votes from Ukrainian experts, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. These are the results of an expert survey by the Ilk Kucheriv Foundation for Democratic Initiatives. "Almost all…
The Pechersky District Court allowed the detention of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, former Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaly Zakharchenko and ex-chief of the Main Department of Internal Affairs in Kyiv Valery Koryak. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This is reported in court decisions published in the Unified Register of Court Decisions. All three are suspected of the alleged unlawful deprivation of liberty of Alexander Drabinko...
Moscow - Kyiv, July 14 (Navigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The election of a new Ukrainian metropolitan on August 13 will become a battle between the rich homosexual lobby and monasticism, writes the famous Russian church publicist Andrei Kuraev in today's issue of MK. The lover of the late Metropolitan Vladimir has already been fired. Subscribe to the news "Navigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The departed Metropolitan Vladimir, in his style of rule, was similar to...
Kyiv, June 02 (Navigator, Vladimir Mikhailov) – Metropolitan Alexander Drabinko, considered the informal leader of the autocephalous group of the UOC-MP, issued a sharp statement in which he condemned the seizure of the UOC-KP church by the Cossacks in the village of Perevalnoye (Crimea). On his Facebook page, Alexander (Drabinko) wrote that the seizure of the UOC-KP temple has the potential to destroy interfaith peace in Ukraine. Subscribe to news...
