Director of Lavra Reserve initiates law on national sanctuaries
Director of the National Reserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra" Maksym Ostapenko. Photo: svidomi.in.ua
Director of the National Reserve "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra" Maksym Ostapenko told Radio Culture in an interview that it is important for him that the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra does not turn into a museum where exhibits are beautifully laid out, but rather remains a living sanctuary.
He announced that the state would find a mechanism to combine the historical and cultural component with the museum activities of the monastery.
"One of our ideas is a law on national shrines, which will provide a certain mechanism for state management and regulation of such objects," Ostapenko said. However, he did not explain the essence of this law.
As reported by the UOJ, the director of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, head of the commission for the transfer of objects of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to the state, Maryana Tomin, stated that there will be an "inventory" of the relics of the Kyiv-Pechersk saints in the monastery caves.
Read also
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.