Bilohorodka: OCU adherents come to seize a UOC church with a grinder

The UOC temple being stormed, with the door cut off with a grinder. Photo: a video screenshot of the UOC

On February 24, supporters of the OCU came to St. Michael's Church in the village of Bilohorodka, Kyiv region, to carry out a raider seizure of the UOC temple, reports Archbishop Silvester (Stoychev) of Bilohorodka on his Facebook page.

"Dear friends, on this terrible day for Ukraine, some people instead of prayer and sorrow are seizing a temple. The temple which during the days of the war was and is a place of help for our soldiers and their families!" wrote Bishop Silvester.

A video captured the OCU adherents cutting down the doors of the church with a grinder.

As reported, on June 26, the supporters of the OCU in the village of Bilohorodka initiated a meeting of the village residents at the stadium where they made an unlawful attempt to change the religious affiliation of the St. Michael Church community. The parishioners of St. Michael's Church in the village of Bilihorodka, Kyiv region, did not take part in the vote on the transfer of the community and pledged their faithfulness to the UOC. St. Michael's Church in the village of Bilohorodka, its rector and parishioners remained in the bosom of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the omophorion of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine.

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