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OCU сleric in Kosmach seizes his own church as parish rejects new calendar
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (266+ words) With police support and the backing of the village council head, the "priest" cut off the locks on the church with an angle grinder and threatened dissenting parishioners with forced mobilization. In the village of Kosmach in Ivano-Frankivsk region, OCU…...
How St. Peter (Mohyla) won the Church back from the state
23+ hour, 49+ min ago (904+ words) After the Union of Brest, the Orthodox in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth lost everything: their churches, their hierarchy, even their right to legal protection. One man restored it all " not by force, but by the letter of the law. This desolation…...
Delegation of Constantinople Patriarchate visits Bulgarian Patriarch
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (344+ words) The hierarchs of the Phanar discussed with the head of the Bulgarian Church "the importance of mutual communion in the name of the unity of the Holy Orthodox Church." A delegation of the Constantinople Patriarchate visited the Primate of the…...
Gnosticism: How heretics tried to turn faith into an elite club
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (730+ words) In the first century, the Church was not stormed by an army, but by intellectuals " armed with diplomas, mythology, and disdain for those who caught fish with their bare hands. The Gnostics identified Yaldabaoth with the God of the Old…...
More Ukrainians join Lithuanian Church communities, conference in Vilnius hears
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (362+ words) A conference in Vilnius discussed changes in Lithuania's Orthodox communities, the growing number of Ukrainians, and support for the exarchate of the Constantinople Patriarchate. On February 24, 2026, Vilnius hosted the international conference "Constantinople and Moscow: Transformation of Church Affiliation and the…...
The Jesus Prayer: how to turn life into "live broadcast" with God
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1291+ words) The second Sunday of Great Lent is dedicated to Saint Gregory Palamas " a man who defended our right to a real encounter with the Creator." Today we will talk about the practice of the Jesus Prayer, one of the most…...
OCU "priest" “allows” parishioners to use priest’s cassock for sex games
1+ week, 2+ day ago (263+ words) Ruslan Usmedinsky said that using a priest's cassock as a prop for role-playing games can strengthen relationships between couples. An OCU "priest," Ruslan Usmedinsky, suggested that women buy cassocks for their men to use as props for sexual role-playing, claiming…...
Priest charged with desertion freed after faithful raise bail
1+ week, 2+ day ago (278+ words) Archpriest Vitaliy Agafonov, a cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, has been released after bail was posted with funds raised by the faithful. Archpriest Vitaliy Agafonov, a cleric of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the city of Nikopol, Kryvyi Rih Eparchy…...
Phanar’s shift to new calendar triggered Orthodox schism – ROCOR hierarch
1+ week, 6+ day ago (272+ words) Metropolitan Mark called Constantinople's adoption of the Gregorian calendar the main source of divisions in the Orthodox world. In an interview with UOJ in Germany, Metropolitan Mark of Berlin and Germany said that divisions in Orthodoxy have already lasted for…...
Zelensky prays with Jews, Muslims, Catholics, OCU, and UGCC at Kyiv Sofia
2+ week, 6+ day ago (231+ words) At the event in St. Sofia of Kyiv, Sheikh Ahmed Tamim asked Allah for "victory over the enemy for the sake of Muhammad, Jesus, and Moses." On February 24, 2026, the day marking the fourth anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an…...