Vinnitsa, Vinnitsa Province, Ukraine, February 19, 2024
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Hundreds of Orthodox Christians, motivated by their faith in Christ, came out to pray on the street outside another church that was recently seized by the schismatics of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s “Orthodox Church of Ukraine.”
On February 12, the faithful of the Church of the She Who is Quick to Hear Icon of the Mother of God in Vinnitsa held a meeting at which they expressed their loyalty to Christ in His Orthodox Church, headed by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev All Ukraine, specifically to try to prevent provocations, reports the Vinnitsa Diocese.
Nevertheless, soon thereafter members of the schismatic OCU cut and replaced the locks on the church and locked the Orthodox Christians out.
In response, hundreds came out on the evening of February 15, the feast of the Meeting of the Lord, to pray outside the abused church.
Under the open sky, by the gates of the church, a paraklesis to the Mother of God with the akathist to the Meeting of the Lord was prayed.
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