Court prevents seizure of the UOC temple in Dnepr
In Dnepr, the Economic Court of Appeal decided to return without consideration the appeal of human rights defender Alexander Gumirov, who challenges the transfer of Briansk church…
Svoboda members want to check the legality of the construction of UOC church in Brody
At the initiative of the deputies of the VO ”Svoboda” and the local cell of the “Legion of Freedom”, the Brody District Council demands to check the…
National Guard continues discrimination of the canonical Church, – UOC
Because of the confusion and bias of the leadership of the National Guard, the Ukrainian military do not have the opportunity to receive proper pastoral care from…
Catholic bishop Jan Sobylo attacked in Zaporozhie
On the night of August 17, a resident of Zaporozhie attacked the Roman Catholic Cathedral of God the Father of Mercy and bishop of the Kharkov-Zaporozhie diocese…
Avakov forbids UOC priests to be chaplains, – deputy commander of the National Guard
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov has forbidden to involve priests of the UOC to the chaplaincy service in the National Guard. This was…
August 17 marks the third anniversary of enthronement of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry
On August 17 at the Holy Assumption Kiev-Pechersk Lavra festivities are being held on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of enthronement of Metropolitan Onufry to the Department…
Kiev Patriarchate consecrates icon for scandalous site “Mirotvorets”
On August 15, Metropolitan John (Yaremenko) of the Kiev Patriarchate consecrated the icon “The All-Seeing Eye of God” for the site “Mirotvorets” (“Peacemaker”). This is reported by…
The US Department of State notes a number of violations of the rights of UOC believers
Over the period of 2016 year there were fixed numerous cases of violations of the rights of believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It is stated in…
ROC Primate and Vatican Secretary of State are to discuss the situation in Ukraine
The Ukrainian issue will be one of the topics of discussion during the forthcoming visit of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, to…
Cross procession to Josaphat Valley gathers about 35 000 believers (PHOTOS)
On August 15, a traditional religious procession to the Josaphat Valley was led by the Primate of the UOC Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Beatitude…
More than 3,000 believers pray on Anna’s Hill (VIDEO)
On August 14, the patronal feast day of the Holy Martyrs of the Maccabees, the bishops of the UOC celebrated the Liturgy in the church of St….
Interactive map of monasteries developed and published in the UOC
The Synodal Commission of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for the Affairs of Monasteries has developed and published a map showing the location of 293 monasteries of the…
Mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk said that “Svoboda” would ban the UOC
Mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk Ruslan Martsinkiv on his Facebook page called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church “the church of the occupant”, while stating that he does not care about…
Filaret proponents try to disrupt worship of the UOC community in Kotiuzhiny (VIDEO)
Members of the Kiev Patriarchate damaged the lock on the church house where the community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church holds their divine worships in Kotiuzhiny village…
Right-wing radicals chase the gay-parade in Odessa
In Odessa there was held an “equality march” of LGBT. No more than 200 people in the dense ring of a significant number of fighters of the…
UOC community deprived of its temple on the territory of military unit in Kiev region
In the village of Devichki Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky district of Kiev region, the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, located on the territory of the military unit No. A3085,…
Uniate media are preparing the ground for seizure of Pochaev Lavra?
The news portal “Za Zbruchem” stated that the Pochaev Holy Assumption Lavra was “seized by the Moscow Patriarchate” and “controlled” by the Russian Orthodox Church. The occasion…
Scandalous UAOC bishop Mstislav (Guk) is disgowned
On August 10, in the building of the UAOC Patriarchate, at the meeting of the Patriarchal Council, Patriarchal Court and the Bishops’ Council of the UAOC, Metropolitan…
Nationalists prepare a new action of intimidation under the windows of a UOC parishioner
Radicals from S-14 group plan to hold a rally under the windows of Kiev resident Svetlana Svetilkina, a parishioner of the UOC. The action is actively promoted…
President signs a decree on celebration of the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on preparations for the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus. The text of the decree is published on…
UOC: “Followers of Father Raphael” lead believers to a dangerous delusion (VIDEO)
On August 10 followers of Archimandrite Raphael are going to exhume his remains, anticipating at the same time “great wonders”. Archbishop Vladimir (Orachev), the administrator of Kamensk…
Сhaplain of the Kyiv Patriarchate arrested for attacking the office of “17 Channel”
The patrol police in Kramatorsk stopped the priest of the Kiev Patriarchate, Vasily Kosyachenko, for violating the traffic rules. Later, the priest was detained on the basis…