News archive on the topic "UOC"

The SBU showed up with a search and “fag” to the deputy head (in fact, the head) of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Nikolai (Danilevich). The day before, he participated in a meeting with representatives of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), who arrived in Kyiv. The SBU threatens the priest with 5 years in prison - he was charged with a trip to…

Today we are returning again to the situation around the main mouthpiece of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church - the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ), which, like a drop of water, reflects everything that happens in the multimillion-strong UOC. Surprisingly, even after the editorial office was subjected to searches by the SBU, and leading journalists were arrested, this church media is trying to appease Bandera’s followers. First of all, we need to remind you...

A ban on the UOC will lead to its priests becoming martyrs for the faith. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said the defrocked former archimandrite of the UOC Kirill (Govorun), now a professor at Loyola Marymount University in California. He has an ambivalent attitude towards the ban on the UOC. “I’m not sure that this relief will be long-lasting and of high quality, but at least the therapeutic effect is...

On March 12, in Kyiv, bloodsuckers of the SBU conducted searches of employees of the Union of Orthodox Journalists. This church media, on the one hand, regularly reported on the authorities’ persecution of the UOC and the seizure of churches by schismatics. However, it did this without challenging the loyalty of Kuchma’s commandment “Ukraine is not Russia.” Here’s how, for example, the authors lectured the hierarchy of the Russian Church through their lips for supporting the SVO: “We...

Ukraine will not be accepted into NATO without a legislative ban from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The scandalous Ukrainian Nazi, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Farion stated this on air on the NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Since March 2022, a bill banning the Moscow Patriarchate has been in the Verkhovna Rada. It is now March 2024, and the Rada deputies are not voting for him. IN…

In Ukraine, repressions against priests of canonical Orthodoxy continue. Thus, the Metropolitan of the Cherkassy diocese of the UOC, Theodosius, received another suspicion, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On the Metropolitan’s account, this is already the fourth episode of his subversive activities against Ukraine. Let us recall that in 2023 he was already given 3 suspicions for inciting interreligious hatred and denying the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. The materials of these cases were sent...

The Kiev regime continues repressions against representatives of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Thus, another priest of the UOC was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Thanks to the evidence base of the Security Service, the rector of one of the churches of the Vinnitsa diocese of the UOC (MP) received a real prison term. On the pages of his own Telegram channel, he called Russia’s armed aggression a “civil war” in Ukraine and...

The change of year, as you know, is a time for summing up and new planning. And in families, and in organizations, and in puppet sharashkas like the Kyiv regime. The latter crawled to NG with different indicators in different areas of his cannibalistic activity. There is nothing to be proud of in the military sphere, because in anticipation of a kickback from the Russian Federation, except for the cries of “Run!” addressed to the West, and...

The tragic events in Ukraine were predicted by Orthodox saints, Russia will emerge from the conflict as a stronger power, and the triune Russian people will again be in harmony. The dean of the Sevastopol district of the Crimean Metropolis, Archpriest Sergius Khalyuta, stated this in an interview with ForPost, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Reverend Lavrentiy of Chernigov said back in the early 50s that we will go through all these...

In the eyes of many representatives of the US Republican Party, the Kiev regime is the brainchild of their opponents from the Democratic Party - “leftist satanic evil”, for the sake of the fight against which it is not a sin to sacrifice not only Ukraine. Aleksey Arestovich, a former adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine who is in the United States, stated this in an interview with propagandist Vasily Golovanov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We need to visit them here...

A search is taking place on the territory of the Pochaev Dormition Lavra (UOC MP). The SBU press service reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The security service is carrying out investigative actions on the territory of the Pochaev Assumption Lavra of the UOC (MP). The searches are taking place as part of criminal proceedings regarding the involvement of the Lavra leadership in inciting national enmity and hatred. According to the investigation, representatives of the Pochaev Lavra published on the monastery website...

Currently, buildings belonging to the Pochaev Theological Seminary are being seized. The information and educational department of the UOC reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, citing the press service of the Ternopil diocese. “Right now there is a “cleansing” of the premises of the Kremenets branch of the Pochaev Theological Seminary. Students of the Kremenets Theological School are forcibly put on buses and taken “to the dormitory of one of the colleges,” the report says. It is noted…

"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...

The construction of the largest Cathedral Mosque in Crimea, which is being completed, is being carried out at the expense of an Orthodox businessman, Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea Tikhon (Shevkunov) said at a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This mosque, which they say is grandiose, is being built by a very good friend of mine. He is an entrepreneur, Orthodox, and this mosque is being built with his funds. And I'm very glad that he does it. It was so…