The Uniates’ actions were supported by deputy of the Buchach district council Andrei Buchinsky (the Svoboda (“Freedom”) Ukrainian radical nationalist party) accompanied by over 50 young people with “balaclava” helmets on their heads and dressed in camouflage, who called themselves “the Right Sector”, reports the website of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC MP).
The citizens of the Ukraine, both believers and non-believers, should find strength to resist the diktat of a bunch of extremists who are imposing their will on the people around.
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In his interview with the Paraskinio Greek newspaper Metropolitan Nicholas of Fthiotida has commented on the relations established between the Greek government and the Orthodox Church and has noted that uncontrolled immigration poses a threat to Greece.
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The police and the Security Service of the Ukraine are trying to find the people who spread the false information on a possible attempt to remove the wonder-working Pochayiv Icon of the Holy Theotokos from the Dormition Pochayiv Lavra and to replace it with a copy.
On March 22, 2015, after the Sunday evening service at the Church of St. Christopher (Agios Christoforos) in the town of Chania (Crete) His Eminence Metropolitan Damaskinos of Kydonia and Apokoronon addressed himself to its rector, Archpriest Basilios, and the congregation.