Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) feel threatened by supporters of the non-canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) amid orders from the Ukrainian authorities to leave the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, out-of-state Bishop Gedeon (Kharon) of Makarov told Sputnik on Friday.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is subjected to outrageous lawlessness and terror with the connivance of international human rights organizations, who de-facto ignore the obvious encroachment on religious freedoms of millions of believers, the Russian Orthodox Church has said
Commenting on new anti-Russian reports of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, the embassy underscored the blasphemous nature of accusations against Russia
Kiev authorities have started to use force against parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, according to the monastery s lawyer.
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