In Defense of the Unity of the Russian Church

15.11.2020 12:22

The Contemporary Ukrainian Issue and Its Resolution according to the Divine and Sacred Canons by Nicephorus, metropolitan of Kykkos and Tillyria. Conclusions.

The translation into Russian of the conclusions at which Nicephorus, metropolitan of Kykkos and Tillyria (Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus), arrives in his work on the Ukrainian ecclesiastical question.
10.11.2020 20:24

DECR representative attends OSCE meeting on freedom of religion in Europe

DECR representative attends OSCE meeting on freedom of religion in Europe Deacon Feodor Shulga made a report on the current situation of the faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the territory of Ukraine and the recent facts of violation of their rights in several regions of the country.
10.11.2020 17:27

Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Representation to European international organizations calls upon international organizations at an OSCE meeting to react actively to violations of the rights of believers

Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Representation to European international organizations calls upon international organizations at an OSCE meeting to react actively to violations of the rights of believers On November 9, Bishop Victor of Baryshivka, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s representation to European international organizations, attended the annual OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting (SHDM) on Freedom of Religion or Belief.
28.10.2020 17:44

Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus: Position of the Russian Church on the Ukrainian autocephaly is fair and wholly justified

Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus: Position of the Russian Church on the Ukrainian autocephaly is fair and wholly justified In connection with the fact that on October 24, 2020, His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus, recognized one of the Ukrainian schismatic communities and with the comments he gave on this occasion to the press, published below is the text of the message of greeting…
24.10.2020 16:13

Metropolitan Hilarion: Archbishop of Cyprus can be no longer liturgically mentioned in the Russian Orthodox Church

Metropolitan Hilarion: Archbishop of Cyprus can be no longer liturgically mentioned in the Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, speaks about a possible reaction of the Russian Orthodox Church to the recognition of the ‘OCU’ by the Church of Cyprus in his talk to RIA Novosti news agency.
30.09.2020 15:10

Priest and parishioners of Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Zolochiv, Lvov region, continue to suffer from persecutions

Priest and parishioners of Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Zolochiv, Lvov region, continue to suffer from persecutions On 28th September 2020, two young men covered with offensive slogans the fence around the house belonging to Rev. Maxim Yoyenko, a cleric of the Lvov diocese, and threw paint at the trailer which the faithful use as a place of worship.
30.09.2020 9:39

Parishioners of the canonical Church at Belichi village in Western Ukraine have to worship under rain outside their sealed church

Parishioners of the canonical Church at Belichi village in Western Ukraine have to worship under rain outside their sealed church On September 26, 2020, at the Belichi village, Ivanovichi district, Volyn Region, some OCU activists, using housebreaking instruments, tried to seize the St Michael church of a religious community of the canonical Church.
29.09.2020 18:22

Ukrainian police has begun investigating an OCU representative’s threats to a priest of the canonical Church

Ukrainian police has begun investigating an OCU representative’s threats to a priest of the canonical Church On September 26, 2020, the Pechera administration of the National Police Directorate in Kiev opened a criminal case and launched investigation into the threats coming from ‘OCU priest’ Petr Sokolovsky to a cleric of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
03.06.2020 17:13

Raiders in Vinnitsa region of Ukraine hang locks on a church in which parishioners were worshipping

Raiders in Vinnitsa region of Ukraine hang locks on a church in which parishioners were worshipping In the afternoon of May 30, 2020, aggressive representatives of the ‘OCU’ made another attempt to capture the church of the Holy Transfiguration of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church at the village of Luka-Meleshkovskaya, Vinnitsa region. The raiders hung a lock on the church door when parishioners were in it.
02.06.2020 20:33

In Ukraine the priest of a captured church is sought to be deprived of his home that has become the place for parochial worship services

In Ukraine the priest of a captured church is sought to be deprived of his home that has become the place for parochial worship services At the village of Sadov, Volyn region, representatives of the ‘OCU’, who captured the parish church of Our Lady of Kazan in February 2019, continue terrorizing the rector of the parish and members of the community who have remained faithful of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.