The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra community signed an appeal to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and deputies of the Verkhovna Rada demanding an end to the persecution of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). This was reported by the Ukrainian Union of Orthodox Journalists.
Especially in the appeal, believers ask not to violate their constitutional right to freedom of religion, and also not to take away their shrines and prevent them from praying in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and other churches of the UOC.
Previously reportedIn Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky district of Ukraine, according to preliminary data, representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU) captured the temple in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary of the UOC.
morning of April 9 reportedthat Epiphanius, head of the separatist OCU, held the Divine Liturgy on the occasion of Palm Sunday in the Refectory Church of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. It was noted that the Primate of the UOC Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev held a mass on the street in the square in front of the Exaltation of the Church of the Cross.