Source: Interfax-Religion
April 28, 2016
St. Andrew's Church
Unidentified criminals attacked the house of the rector of St. Andrew's Church in Dnepropetrovsk, Archpriest Anatoly Lysenko (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate) and killed his wife.
Criminals invaded the priest's house in the Obukhovka village of the Dnepropetrovsk Region in Ukraine on Tuesday night, tied his wife up, then laid her on the floor with her face down and started taunting her, parishioners of Father Anatoly's church told Interfax-Religion.
"Beating the priest, they questioned him, and continued violating his wife. Then the band divided: some of them stayed in the house where they beat Irina to death, while others took Father Anatoly to the car and drove him to the night cemetery where they long and violently beat him and then left him among the graves, probably thinking that the priest died from injuries," the interviewee said.
When the priest regained conscience, he managed to reach the neighboring village and told his deacon over the phone what had happened, and the deacon called the police. Father Anatoly is staying at the intensive care department of the 6th city hospital in Dnepropetrovsk.
The parishioners connect the crime with revenge on the part of the self-proclaimed Kiev Patriarchate, from whom the priest won custody of the cemetery chapel five years ago.
The requiem service for Irina Lysenko and her burial will take place on Thursday after the Liturgy in St. Andrew's Church in Dnepropetrovsk.
