In the city of Korsun-Shevchenkovsky of the Cherkasy region, unidentified persons attacked and desecrated the Elias Church of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). In this respect reports “Union of Orthodox Journalists” (UOJ).
It was recorded that on the night of June 1, an unidentified group of people broke the window of the church and threw eggs and stones into the building. The vandals managed to escape.
According to parishioners of the temple, the act of vandalism was committed by the same people who seized the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands on May 31.
On May 22, deputies of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada defective Collect a sufficient number of signatures to be considered in the second reading of the bill banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).
Sam Brownback, formerly U.S. Senator and U.S. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom statedHe said that the Ukrainian side should not arrest priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church due to their connections with the Russian Orthodox Church (PRC). The senator also emphasized that it is impossible to close the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and other churches affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate.
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Source: Gazeta
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