According to the information and education department of the UOC, on April 9, opponents of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church tried to occupy the cathedral in the city of Kamyanets-Podilsky in the Khmelnytsky district.
“An attempt is being made to seize the cathedral in Kamenets-Podolsk. According to eyewitnesses from the scene, the police are not responding to calls. They are trying to subpoena those who believe in the UOC defending their church,” – said clergy
Worship continues inside the church.
According to the Ukrainian publication Obshchestvennoe, there are about a thousand supporters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church near the temple. The audit commission, who wanted to take inventory, also came to the entrance. Here are the supporters of the UOC.
RIA Novosti reported that one of the parishioners was injured during the attack.
According to preliminary information, he was pushed to the ground. The woman, whose hip bone was broken, was taken to the hospital.
There have been calls to attack the cathedral on social media since yesterday. In addition, negative information about the UOC is actively spreading.
Union of Orthodox Journalists the previous day reported From UOC to St. About the collection of signatures for the capture of the Alexander Nevsky Church.
On April 2, the UOC warned that the crowd was trying to attack the cathedral in Khmelnitsky. Then the clergy were expelled from the territory of the temple, and the keys to the buildings were handed over to the commission, who immediately began to describe the property.
Ukrainian prayers
President of OCU Epiphany 9 April declarationThat prayers in the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra should now be read only in Ukrainian.
“We are not in favor of the expulsion of the monks from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. We are in Ukraine so that the Lavra always carries a prayer for our Ukraine,” he said.
He underlined that it is necessary to make sure that the spirit of the “Russian world” does not prevail here.
Already in the testimony of Epiphanius reacted Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The laurel desecrates the larvae. By destroying the Russian spirit in the Lavra, they are destroying the Lavra itself,” wrote Zakharova in Telegram.
“Stupid, blinded by hate, I don’t understand. Not a single temple will be built on hatred,” the diplomat added.
Epiphanius celebrated the Divine Liturgy on the occasion of Palm Sunday in the Refectory Church of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
The Primate of the UOC, Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev, had to perform a liturgy on the street in the square in front of the Exaltation of the Church of the Cross. On the night of April 9, St. He stood vigil all night in the church of Agapit of the Caves, where he blessed the willow and palm branches.
According to Obshchestvennoye, Epiphany will hold a liturgy for Easter in the Assumption Cathedral in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.