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Historical Background As early as in 1936, the Presidium of the City Council of Kiev (under the USSR rule) decided

A case which illustrates the attitude of the government to the religious denomination of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is that

Metropolitan of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol Ephrem sent an open letter addressed for the head of Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Uhryniv village, Volyn region was built in the 19th century

The head of the UOC community of Verbychne village, Turiysk district, the rector of the Church of the Nativity of

Badyvka village, Ostroh district, Rivne region Belogorodka village, Dubno district, Rivne region Dmytrivka village, Hoshcha district, Rivne region Duliby village,

According to Halyna Hulchuk, resident of vlg.Badyvka: “On 26 November 2015 at nearly 7 a.m. the Kyiv Patriarchate representatives together

From the account of senior priest Vitaliy V. Chayka: «Everything began when I decided to prepare all the church and

On 07.06.2015, during the church service, the religious community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in vlg.Dmytrivka was assaulted by the

In June 2015 the head of the local selfgovernment in village Duliby, Lesia O.Myronchuk, took illegal possession of the official

Dubno Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, From Vitaliy G.Buha, Residence address: 1 Nekrasov St., Dubno, Dubno district, Rivne region

According to the story of the senior priest, Father Andrei Decker: «On 31.08.2014, the Kyiv Patriarchate, with the support of

According to the story of the priest Alexander Kardash: «In the spring of 2014, representatives of the Kyiv Patriarchate, headed

At the end of May 2015, the head of the village council of Riasnyky village, Rivne village initiated a meeting

An application fragment of Acheiropaeic image church beneficiary in Hodosy village to the prosecutor of Rivne oblast «…On September 20th

Below is a text of the written application of the head of religious community of St. Paraskeva parish of Rivne

Explanatory memorandum by members of the religious community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church: “On 12.02.2015 in the local House of

The parish of St. Archistratigus Michael from Butyn village, Zbarazh district, Ternopil region has existed since 1991 (when Ukraine was

The parish of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St. Archistratigus Michael sanctuary in Novostav village was created on 24.09.1991. The

A congregation “Parish of St. Archistratigus Michael” from Bashuky village, Kremenets district, Ternopil bishopric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has

In this small in amount of residents locality there used to be an old church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

In June-September 2015 there is an exacerbation of socio-political situation in Ternopil region on religious grounds. In particular, certain individuals

On April 28, 2015 the site of the Religious Information Service of Ukraine, the office of which is located at

  PRESS RELEASE  on the seizure and re-arrest of the church building located in the village of Ptycha, Dubno district,