Krivoy Rog artist Nikolai Riabokon was forced by the police to paint over the mural in the courtyard of the house, which depicts the rulers from Nicholas II to Gorbachev, writes “KP in Ukraine”. “Three policemen came and forced to... Read more

On September 18, in Lutsk, representatives of the Kyiv Patriarchate unauthorizedly took out things of the publishing house “Initial”, which rents space on the territory of the monastery. According to the director of the publishing house Victor Fedosiuk, the priests... Read more

The UAOC reacted to the scandal that arose in the media about illegal construction in the territory of the “Pochayna” park. There was an order of Primate Macarius of the UAOC published on the official website of the diocese, which... Read more

On September 18, the Volyn diocese of the Kyiv Patriarchate mobilized seminarians to take the things of the publishing house “Initial” out of the premises. The publishing house rents several rooms on the territory of the Bernardine Monastery – a... Read more

On September 14, Head of the Representative Office of the UOC at the European International Organizations, Bishop Victor (Kotsaba), spoke about the difficult situation of the parishioners of the canonical Church in Ukraine at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM)... Read more

The Ukrainian nationalist party “Right Sector” in its updated program called the UOC the “fifth column” and urged to crush it. “Without a real counteraction to Russian agents, that is, the complete defeat of the Moscow fifth column inside the... Read more

On September 13 there was a meeting of Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Sawa, with Head of the UOC Representation to International Organizations Bishop of Baryshevka Victor (Kotsaba). It is reported by Bishop Victor on his Facebook page.... Read more

In the UN Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, published on 12 September, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) calls on the authorities of the country to conduct investigation of the activities of... Read more

Radicals urge Ugledar residents to protest against the construction of a UOC church in the city. The protesters demand to cancel the decision of the city council to allocate land for the future church, reports UAZMI. Mayor of the city,... Read more

On September 12, about 20 representatives of the Kyiv Patriarchate and the “Right Sector” gathered to obstruct the laying of the capsule and consecration of the site for the construction of the future church of the UOC in Sumy. As... Read more

People’s deputy of Ukraine Dmitry Tymchuk on his Facebook page accused the Gorlovka eparchy of the UOC of dissemination of the “Russian world”. As a UOJ correspondent was said in the eparchy, the people’s deputy saw separatism in the subject... Read more

Deputy of the Ternopol Region Council from VO “Svoboda” Vasily Gabor and his assistants scandalously disrupted the allocation of land to the Pochaev Lavra at the session of the local city council. The information about the incident that occurred in... Read more

The director of the Ukrainian Center for Political Studies and Conflictology, Mikhail Pogrebinsky, believes that the All-Ukrainian Cross Procession-2017 impressed the President of Ukraine, so Petro Poroshenko will try to “sit on two chairs” in church matters. So the politologist... Read more

Artist Ilya Chichkan in the Kiev gallery “Karas” has exhibited works in which monkeys are depicted in iconic frames. Criminal proceedings for the exhibition “Psychodarwinism: the evolution of psycho” were initiated under Article 161 of the Criminal Code: “Violation of... Read more

In the town of Volochisk, Khmelnitsky region, radicals, with the support of the priests of the Kiev Patriarchate, intend to create a working group that will start agitating the population to fall into schism. According to a UOJ source, now... Read more

The TSN news service on the “1+1” channel made another provocative report to discredit the UOC. The broadcast dedicated to the dog of the clergyman, which is terrorizing the village in Volyn, is based on unconfirmed information, reports the press... Read more

Those who forbid these or those confessions should remember: this did not bring benefits to the states in whose name these crimes were committed, said in an interview with “Phrase” an expert in religion, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences and chairman... Read more

On September 8, Metropolitan Sergius of Ternopol and Kremenets consecrated a new church in the village of Katerinovka in the Ternopol region. As a UOJ correspondent reports, the church was built with the assistance of the charitable foundation “Favor”. Initially,... Read more

On September 7, the first meeting of the Donetsk Commercial Court of Appeal in Kharkov was held to review the case on the confessional affiliation of the Sretensky Church of Konstantinovka, reports the website of the Gorlovka diocese. The representative... Read more

In Nikolaev, after a clash with radicals who came to dismantle the foundation of the temple, several parishioners of the UOC went to hospital. According to a UOJ source, the women took a record of bodily injuries incurred as a... Read more

The Chancellor of the UOC, Metropolitan Anthony(Pakanich) of Boryspil and Brovary noted that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church today is actually fighting for religious freedom and opposing attempts of the state to meddle in the Church’s affairs and control its internal... Read more

On September 7, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, in his address to the Verkhovna Rada deputies, said that he would not sign the bill, according to which the candidatures of bishops should be agreed with the state bodies. This... Read more

The Russian Orthodox Church has interpreted Petro Poroshenko’s words about the creation in Ukraine of the Unified Local Orthodox Church as an attempt to interfere in the affairs of the Church, reports Interfax-Religion. “Interference in the Church’s internal affairs is... Read more

At the International Symposium on Orthodox Spirituality in Italy the UOC delegation met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and told him about the stance of the canonical Church in Ukraine. It is reported by the UOC Information and Education Department. Archbishop... Read more

On September 7, pronouncing his address in the Verkhovna Rada, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko declared he is set to pursue with an idea of creating a Local Orthodox Church. “The Verkhovna Rada approved a historic address to the Ecumenical... Read more