News archive on the topic "seizures of temples"

The seizure of churches of the canonical UOC in Ukraine by Filaret’s members may cause a harsh response from believers. Priest of the UOC, Hieromonk Feofan (Kratirov), said this on the YouTube channel of Russian journalist Yuri Kotenok, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If the seizure of churches begins, as happened the other day in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, then this will become a serious precedent. The people will not remain silent. I…

Ukrainian special services accused their Russian colleagues of shaking the situation in the country on the eve of the elections. Thus, Deputy Head of the SBU Viktor Kononenko said at a briefing in Kiev that the Russian Federation has a whole plan to destabilize the situation in Ukraine, which consists of inspiring seizures of Orthodox churches belonging to the UOC, pickets and protests both in the regions and in the capital of Ukraine, reports ...

If the Patriarch of Constantinople recognizes Ukrainian autocephaly, then the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will lose the Kiev Pechersk and Pochaev Lavras. Mikhail Denisenko, declared “Patriarch Filaret” by the schismatics, stated this in an interview published on the website of the so-called “Kyiv Patriarchate,” unrecognized in the Orthodox world. “The fact is that the Moscow Patriarchate does not have any property in Ukraine. Has no property. Church property in…

Ukrainian radicals did not fail to join Poroshenko’s propaganda campaign to obtain illegal autocephaly from the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In particular, “Right Sector” published a mass circulation and began to actively distribute a special issue of its newspaper throughout cities and villages, dedicated to the creation of the EPOC and a complete break with canonical Orthodoxy. Having stated that Ukraine, more than ever, needs unity, the “right-wingers” are at the head...

The commander of the first company of the 90th separate airborne assault rifle of the 81st airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the so-called “cyborg” Sergei Biloshitsky, who fought at the Donetsk airport, said that Ukraine was plunging into a religious war and blamed the Filaretites and Uniates for this. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte He stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him,…

The OSCE knows all the schemes for the seizure of UOC churches by supporters of the Kyiv Patriarchate, which is unrecognized in the Orthodox world. This process negatively affects Ukraine’s international position. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Oleg Denisov, head of the human rights organization Human Rights Advocacy, stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, this is evidenced by...

  During 2015-2017, multiple cases of violations of the rights of believers of the UOC occurred in Ukraine - seizures of churches, beatings of people, arson and destruction of church property. At the same time, law enforcement agencies did not take the necessary measures to prevent this from happening in the future. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This is stated in the statement of the UOC Representative Office...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church responded to the arrest of the possible killers of a 64-year-old nun from Kyiv. Let us recall that on July 28, 2015, nun Alevtina (Kravchuk), a resident of the St. Florus Convent in Kyiv, was brutally murdered. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte In his blog on the Korrespondent.net website, Metropolitan Anthony of Boryspil published statistics on the dead and injured...