First Ukrainian region votes to ban Moscow-affiliated church
On November 29, representatives of the Lviv Regional Council voted to ban the activities of religious organizations (associations)…
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Xenophobic brochures found in Moscow-affiliated church in Ukraine’s west
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) found propaganda materials denying the existence of Ukraine in the facilities of the Moscow-affiliated…
SBU raids Moscow Patriarchate-controlled Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in Ukrainian capital (updated)
On the morning of 22 November 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine reported on Telegram that it was…
Only 4% of Ukrainians still identify as followers of Moscow Orthodox church – survey
The share of Ukrainians identifying as members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has fallen…
Half of Ukrainians want Moscow Patriarchate church banned in Ukraine, poll shows
One of the Ukrainian reputable pollsters, the Sociological Group Rating, has published the results of its eighth national…
Moscow Patriarchate tells Russian troops: “Your task is to wipe the Ukrainian nation off the face of the earth”
In the wake of the exposure of the Russian massacre of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, an action that…
Leaders of Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine shifting allegiance to Kyiv
When Vladimir Putin began his full-scale war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he destroyed many things but…
Moscow Patriarchate moved into Africa to provide cover for FSB officers and PMCs, not to punish anyone over Ukraine, Horyevoy says
The Moscow Patriarchate has insisted and most people have accepted the idea that Kirill has expanded the presence…
Bishop Diomid, who led church opposition to ROC MP, dies in car accident on Patriarch Kirill’s birthday
Diomid, who was Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) bishop in Chukotka before being stripped of that rank by the…
Georgian Church’s recognition of Ukrainian autocephaly ‘only a question of time,’ Horyevoy says
The Georgian Orthodox Church has not yet recognized the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church because it is…
Moscow Patriarch lays groundwork for challenging primacy of Ecumenical Patriarchate
At a meeting of a Moscow conference on “World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Collegiality in the Light of Orthodox…
39% of Orthodox in Ukraine allied to Ukrainian church, more than twice than to the Moscow church
Now, a poll of 5,000 Ukrainians by the Ukrainian Institute of the Future and the New Image Marketing…
Moscow worried about possible moves to Orthodox autocephaly in Belarus and Moldova
Religious affairs specialist Milena Faustova says that “the closer the August 24 date of the visit of Bartholomew…
Epiphanius reminds that all Orthodox parishes in Ukraine belong to the Ukrainian church
Over the last 18 months, the number of Orthodox parishes in Ukraine which have voted to change their…
130,000 Ukrainians come to church for Easter as Moscow Patriarchate ignores COVID-19 quarantine
130,000 Ukrainians visited churches for Orthodox Easter this Sunday, on 19 April. This is much less than last…
Kremlin employs Cossacks, Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine against Kyiv
For as long as official cases of COVID-19 have remained manageable inside the Russian Federation, Moscow was able…
Defiant Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine calls faithful to church for Easter
Easter as a COVID-19 hazard Metropolitan Onufriy, the primate of the UOC MP, at publication time was reportedly…
Greek acceptance of Ukrainian autocephaly – bigger defeat for Moscow than Constantinople grant, Soldatov says
The harsh even hysterical reaction of the Moscow Patriarchate to the decision of the Greek Orthodox Church to…
520 parishes of Moscow Church have now shifted to autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine
In the first three months after the Orthodox Church of Ukraine became autocephalous, approximately 300 parishes shifted their…
Half of Ukrainians identify with Orthodox Church of Ukraine; only one in seven with Moscow’s exarchate
A new poll shows that 48.8 percent of Ukrainians identify with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine while only…