Primate of UOC meets with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
On July 19, 2022, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine, met with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridgette Brink, at her request, reports the Information and Educational Department of the UOC.
The meeting was also attended by the Deputy Chairman of the UOC Department for External Church Relations, Archpriest Mykola Danilevych, and staff from the U.S. Embassy.
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry congratulated the ambassador on the beginning of her diplomatic mission in Ukraine.
During the meeting, they discussed the life and activities of the Church in Ukraine in war conditions.
As earlier reported, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry held a liturgy and requiem service for the dead in Borodianka.
Read also
Priest charged with desertion freed after faithful raise bail
Archpriest Vitaliy Agafonov, a cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, has been released after bail was posted with funds raised by the faithful.
UOC clergy and laity from several eparchies donate blood for wounded soldiers
Clergy and Orthodox youth of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church donated blood for wounded military personnel.
UOC faithful in Kozelshchansk hold procession with icon of the Mother of God
Pilgrims and clergy of the Poltava Eparchy prayed at the Kozelshchansk Monastery and took part in a procession around the church with the wonderworking icon.
Hearing in Metropolitan Theodosiy’s сase postponed after “victim” no-show
A scheduled hearing at the Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Court in the case against the ruling bishop of the Cherkasy Eparchy was postponed after OCU chaplain Nazariy Zasansky failed to appear.
Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi: The time has come to build the Third Temple
The spiritual leader of Ukraine’s Jewish community commented on Tucker Carlson’s claims about the religious motives behind the war in the Middle East.
US bars removal of children from parents who reject gender transition
U.S. authorities have affirmed the right of families to raise their children in accordance with their religious convictions and biblical understanding of sex.