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Metropolitan Onufriy of Kiev announced his intention to hold a “prayer procession” from the city of Orekhov, Zaporozhye region, to the Azovstal plant in Mariupol in order to “provide medical assistance” and “take out civilians and wounded military personnel.” This is a provocation of the SBU, in which, under pressure, the top of the UOC-MP agreed to participate, writes Aleksey Selivanov, a former adviser to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, and now... in an author’s column for PolitNavigator.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky specifically introduced a new holiday of the “foundation of Ukrainian statehood” on the day of the Baptism of Rus' in order to use the mass religious procession of the canonical UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate as a picture of supposed support for his endeavors. Kiev political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky said this on the YouTube channel “First Cossack,” the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The President has gone further, he is establishing a new holiday, which he declares as...

The large-scale religious procession of believers of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, which took place the day before in Kiev, caused mixed feelings, because along its route a prayer service was served at the memorial erected in honor of the Euromaidan militants, and representatives of the Kiev Metropolis, trying to avoid the wrath of nationalists, assured that they were not participating in the procession “Muscovites”, but only Ukrainians. About why this happens in the author’s column...

The Kiev Patriarchate celebrated the day of the Baptism of Rus' with a religious procession through the center of Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This year it was possible to gather significantly more lay people than last year. Another “achievement” is the participation of military chaplains in new olive-colored cassocks with army-style stripes on the sleeves. Two clerics at the beginning of the column carried speakers on poles, from...

About 200 thousand believers from all regions of Ukraine marched in a religious procession from Vladimir Hill in the center of Kyiv to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. The procession was attended by the episcopate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and representatives of all dioceses, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The procession took place virtually without incident. Some activist groups planned to hold protests during the event, but due to…

Attempts by the Ukrainian authorities to oppose the religious procession in honor of the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' had the opposite effect. This was reported by the Information and Educational Department of the UOC, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the organizers of the procession, many participants have already reached Kiev, despite all the obstacles. It is expected that the event will be attended by more than one hundred thousand believers who are already gathering on Vladimir Hill...

Orthodox pilgrims are being prevented in every possible way from attending the religious procession on July 27 in Kyiv. Such messages come from the Odessa, Rivne, Chernivtsi and Nizhyn dioceses of the UOC MP. This was reported on the official website of the Synodal Information and Educational Department of the UOC MP, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Vehicle owners are forced to refuse believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, fearing threats from government officials and radical nationalists. So,…

The religious procession, which is planned in Sumy on October 14, may turn into provocations. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Political scientist Pavel Rudyakov stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, despite the fact that according to Ukrainian legislation, one only needs to notify the local authorities about holding such an event,...

Sumy nationalists and radicals from the Right Sector, banned in the Russian Federation, are preparing provocations during the procession of the UOC parishioners, which is scheduled for October 14th - the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which coincides with the anniversary of the founding of the UPA, the Day of the Ukrainian Cossacks and the Day of the Defender of Ukraine. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This is reported by a local...

Believers in Sumy are planning to hold a religious procession, despite the ban from the city authorities. This was reported by the Union of Orthodox Journalists, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte Let us recall that earlier the Sumy Diocese of the UOC submitted two applications to hold religious processions on October 14 - on the Feast of the Intercession of the Mother of God, and on October 22 - on the Feast of the Korsun Icon of God...

The Executive Committee of the Sumy City Council banned the holding of a religious procession for Orthodox believers of the UOC on October 14, 2017, on the religious holiday of the Intercession. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Archbishop Evlogiy of Sumy and Akhtyrsk reported this to the Information and Educational Department of the UOC, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This procession and Liturgy on the site of the destroyed Church of the Intercession of Metro Sumi...

The religious procession in Kyiv on the occasion of the baptism of Rus', organized by schismatics from the so-called “Kyiv Patriarchate”, unrecognized in the Orthodox world, was not particularly widespread, writes Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The publication notes that the procession of the schismatics gathered about two thousand people, while the procession of the canonical UOC that took place the day before attracted, according to various...

Despite the threats of right-wing radicals - Nazis and schismatics, supported by the official authorities - on July 27, a prayer service and procession of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) dedicated to the Day of the Baptism of Kievan Rus took place in Kiev. The celebrations attracted tens of thousands of people. Such mass participation was extremely undesirable for the ruling regime - after all, as you know, the UOC-MP condemns the fighting in the Donbass...

Due to possible provocations, the procession of the Cross in Odessa was cancelled. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The Chairman of the Missionary Department of the Odessa Diocese of the UOC announced this on his Facebook page. “We were warned about possible provocations, and therefore asked not to hold a religious procession. We express our gratitude to all those who had the determination to go through those places…