Ladyzhyn, Vinnitsa Province, Ukraine, April 3, 2024
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A priest of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church was brutally beaten by a group of young men yesterday as they ransacked house.
The home of Archpriest Evgeny Vorobyov doubled as the worship space for the parish community of the Kazan Icon in Ladyzhyn, Vinnitsa Province, since their church was violently seized in January.
“A group of unknown young people broke into the private territory where the priest lives, tore down the locks, and entered the house. The priest, who was inside the house, was thrown to the floor, beaten, and dragged into the yard,” the Tulchin Diocese reports.
Police were present, but stood idly by. Instead, the attackers fled from a group of elderly women who were in the house at the time.
The Church of the Kazan Icon was violently seized on January 9, just two days after the feast of the Nativity of Christ. Fr. Evgeny was beaten bloody in that incident as well.
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