RADICALS WHO SEIZED UPTs CHURCH IN WEST OF UKRAINE ACCUSE PARISHIONERS OF RELUCTANCE TO TRANSFER INTO "NORMAL CHURCH"
Interfax-Religiia, 1 October 2018
Raiders who yesterday seized the metropolitan's chamber in the UPTs Holy Trinity church in the west of Ukraine justified their action by the reluctance of parishioners to support "a united local church."
A video of the seizure, which was published by the Information and Enlightenment Department of the UPTs, shows how the raiders are reproaching believers for the fact that they will not transfer into a "normal church" and do not support the creation of a local church of Ukraine.
As was reported, on Friday [28 September] activists of the Right Sector (a radical nationalist organization that is forbidden in the RF) seized a part of the premises in the church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Bogorodchany of Ivano-Frankovsk oblast and beat parishioners. Several persons received serious injury, the rector was driven into the street with kicks, and then the locks on the church were changed.
The Ivano-Frankovsk diocese of the UPTs urged representatives of the government to peacefully resolve the disputed matters of a property and other nature and to put an end to aggression against Orthodox Ukrainians. (tr. by PDS, posted 1 October 2018)
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