OCU activists stage provocation during a meeting of UOC hierarch with OSCE
A meeting of the ruling bishop of the Zhitomir eparchy with OSCE representatives
On February 14, 2019, the OCU adherents organized a provocation under the building of the Zhitomir Eparchial Administration of the UOC, reports the UOJ sources.
The activists of the new church structure came to the building of the eparchial administration precisely when the meeting of Metropolitan Nikodim (Gorenko) of Zhitomir and Novograd-Volynsky with OSCE SMM representatives took place.
The provocateurs were holding picket signs, which contradicted each other: "The Local Church of Ukraine – peace and unification", "Down with invaders in cassocks! Change the stars to crosses!".
A few days earlier, members of the National Corps and VO Svoboda addressed the head of the Zhitomir Regional State Administration and the Ministers of Defense and Education of Ukraine with a request to “influence the solution of problems” with the UOC. The radicals complained to the authorities that in many temples of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Malin and the Malin district clergymen allegedly lead “a hidden pro-Russian campaign and the promotion of de facto anti-Ukrainian ideas”.
Read also
Kyiv Metropolis court hearing postponed again
Kyiv’s Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal postponed the hearing in DESS’s lawsuit against the Kyiv Metropolis until October 7.
Patriarch Theophilos receives Metropolitan of Rivne and eparchy pilgrims
The Patriarch of Jerusalem met with pilgrims from the Rivne Eparchy and gave the faithful his blessing.
UGCC reps gift Pope with embroidered Ukrainian shirt
The UGCC members said it was important to tell the pontiff about Ukrainians who had migrated to Europe because of the war.
“Ancient Kyiv” head complains OCU barred him from capital church
Roman Malenkov said OCU representatives called him a Bolshevik.
Greek theologian voices support for Sviatohirsk Lavra brotherhood
Theologian Michail Maroudis said it is impossible to remain indifferent to the tragedy in Sviatohirsk and called for prayers for the slain monk.
Several churches damaged by shelling in Russia and occupied territories
Over the course of several days, churches in the Tambov and Zaporizhzhia regions, Krasnodar Krai and Donbas came under attack.