Krishna followers, detained in Transcarpathia, continue to sing in TCC

Krishna followers in TCC. Photo: screenshot from video Strana

In the Transcarpathian region, police and military personnel detained a group of Krishna followers and brought them to the TCС, where members of the Hindu sect continued to sing and dance, according to the Strana publication.

Videos of the arrest near the "Sunny Valley" sanatorium near Mukachevo are being published in local Telegram channels.

People who were at the TCC at the time reacted positively to the Krishna followers, recording their chants on their phones.

As the UOJ reported, Oleksandr Pavlychenko, the Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union for Human Rights, stated that one cannot refuse military service due to religious beliefs during wartime.

Read also

First words and photos after Bishop Arseniy's release published online

The abbot of the Sviatohirsk Lavra, after a year and ten months of imprisonment, offered praise to the Most Holy Theotokos for his release.

In Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, UOC hierarch reads Great Canon near seized church

Bishop Antony performed the Great Penitential Canon together with believers near a closed church in the Cherkasy Eparchy of the UOC.

His Beatitude reads third part of Great Canon at St Florus Convent

The Primate of the UOC led the Great Compline with the reading of the Penitential Canon at the St. Florus Convent in Kyiv.

UOC lawyer thanks U.S. politicians for Metropolitan Arseniy’s release

Amsterdam gave special mention to Orthodox public and political figures in the United States who spoke out in defense of the UOC hierarch.

82-year-old UGCC nun killed in Brazil

In Brazil’s state of Paraná, a man broke into a UGCC convent and killed 82-year-old Sister Nadiia Havanska. The tragedy has stirred the Ukrainian community.

MP Mazurashu proposes establishing a Bible Day in Ukraine

MP Heorhiy Mazurashu is proposing to add a Bible Day to Ukraine’s list of commemorative dates, without introducing an additional day off.