War in Ukraine

The issue of eviction of the UOC from the lavra has been brewing for years and intensified during the war.

Viktoria Halitsina, head of the Ukrainian military administration of the port city of Berdyansk, wrote on her agency’s Telegram channel that Russian troops had seized the city’s Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

A new report concludes that Russia is systematically persecuting believers of several faiths in Ukraine as part of a campaign of “cultural genocide.”

Ukrainian church leaders have warned Russians they will have to answer for savagery inflicted on their country, following the International Criminal Court’s indictment of President Vladimir Putin for war crimes.

THE COLONY, Texas (OSV News) — St. Sophia Ukrainian Catholic Church in The Colony, Texas, is thousands of miles from the front lines of the fighting in Ukraine, but the hearts of its faithful are close to the war-torn country. In his flock, Father Pavlo Popov ministers to a broad scope of Catholics. Refugees recently […]