Icons on UOC church in Kremenchuk vandalized

The perpetrators who vandalized the icons have not yet been found. Photo: Kremenchuk Diocese

On the night of December 5–6, in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, vandals smashed icons on the walls of the UOC’s Church of St. Barbara. According to the press service of the Kremenchuk Diocese, parishioners discovered the damage on Friday morning.

"Church property was damaged, specifically the church icons located on the external wall of the church building were smashed. The church rector, Archpriest Oleksandr Yurkovskyi, called the police to document the criminal actions," the statement said.

According to the diocesan press service, the perpetrators have not yet been found.

As the UOJ previously reported, in Novosilky, OCU activists disposed of icons and books from a seized church as trash.

Read also

In Britain, Evangelical Alliance urges Christians to preach among Muslims

British evangelicals urged Christians to stop fearing Islam and begin seeing migrants as a “mission field.”

Khmelnytskyi Eparchy delivers 20 tons of aid to hospitals and social institutions

Volunteers distributed a large humanitarian shipment among 16 medical and social institutions in the Khmelnytskyi region.

UGCC head blames Russia for tensions between Poland and Ukraine

Shevchuk claimed that Moscow is financing radical parties across Europe in an effort to undermine solidarity between Warsaw and Kyiv.

Priest to Dumenko: What are your fruits? Tears, fights, and forged documents?

A UOC cleric responded to statements by OCU head Epiphany Dumenko about the “restoration” of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

OCU “hierarchs” in Dnipro hold prayer breakfast with Jews and Catholics

Around 400 participants, including representatives of Dumenko’s structure, held a joint prayer breakfast in Dnipro.

Phanar head discusses shelling of Ukrainian shrines with Greek consul in Kherson

The consul expressed admiration for the Ecumenical Patriarch’s deep knowledge of developments in Ukraine.