Due to religious confrontation in Kolomyia a UOC priest gets into hospital

As reported by the UOJ source, senior priest of the Assumption temple in Kolomyia Nikolay Smetaniuk was hospitalized into the cardiological department due to the conflict sparkled around the Annunciation church of the UOC.

Father Nikolay was visited by bishop of Baryshevka Victor (Kotsaba), vicar of Kiev Metropoly, head of the UOC Representative Office at European Organizations. Vladyka arrived in Kolomyia to support the UOC parishioners in defending their title to the temple.

U.S. bishops call for Church unity on Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy

The Assembly of Bishops of the USA has issued an encyclical for the Triumph of Orthodoxy on Church unity, veneration of icons, and support for pan-Orthodox ministry.

OCU organizes harassment of businessman for aiding UOC

Hryshchuk called for boycotting the business of the entrepreneur who built a UOC church in the Rivne region.

Head of Lavra Reserve: I believe UOC monks will move to the OCU

Ostapenko said there are 140 UOC monks and novices on the territory of the Lower Lavra.

"Shield of Judah": Biblical name given to operations against Iran

A joint Israeli–US military operation against Iran has received a code name referencing the biblical forefather of the Jewish royal line.

In Syria, Islamic militants behead statues of Christ and Virgin Mary

Vandals beheaded statues of the Lord and the Mother of God at the entrance to the "Cave of the Virgin Mary" in the village of Al-Basiya near the coastal city of Banias in Syria.

Icon with particle of Gabriel Urgebadze's relics to be brought to Uzhhorod from Georgia

The holy icon, painted in Georgia, will be brought to the Holy Trinity Church of the Mukachevo Eparchy of the UOC.