The most important holy site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Holy Dormition-Kiev Caves Lavra, reopened at 9:00 AM after a period of quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Archbishop Theodosy (Snigirev) of Boyarka
Probably the main conclusion that we can draw already today is that we have shown ourselves to be completely unprepared for such contemporary challenges. We are acutely in need of rethinking the external forms of the life of the Orthodox Church in force majeure situations.
Petition No. 22/093004-EP, authored by the lawyer Sergei Guli, now awaits consideration. It currently has 25,722 signatures.
Governments throughout the world continue to ease their coronavirus quarantine requirements, including conditions for holding Church services.
Meeting at the Metropolitan residence in Chișinău under the chairmanship of His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir on Tuesday, May 19, the Holy Synod of the Moldovan Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate adopted an address to Prime Minster Ion Chicu, calling on him to work together with Church representatives to return to regular Church services.