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A fallen dome lies near the Church of the Holy Mother of God (‘Joy of All Who Sorrow’), destroyed by a Russian aerial bomb last spring, on January 18, 2023 in Bohorodychne, Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been banned in Ukraine. Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) Metropolitan Onufriy (center) during a prayer at Saint Volodymyr Hill marking the ...
Ukraine’s churches are the hardest hit of all heritage sites in the war-town country, new data suggests. But a coalition of priests and religious leaders are working together—and overcoming ...
Since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian soldiers have already killed 50 clergymen. The enemy army has also destroyed about 700 churches, states President of Ukraine Volodymyr ...
Over the last 19 months, only about 1,500 of those congregations have voted to join a break-away Ukrainian-led church. ... committed war crimes and even destroyed Orthodox holy sites.
Ukraine has accused Russia of deliberately destroying cultural property. Investigators say Russian forces target churches, libraries, museums, and monuments as part of a war on Ukraine's identity.
Not only have Russians purposely destroyed churches belonging to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, but they have also razed any property belonging to the Ukrainian Pentecostal Church, the prayer ...
Accordingly, the EU has pledged to provide Ukraine with 2 million rounds of ammunition for heavy artillery this year as part of a broader military support initiative worth E5 billion ($5.6 billion).
This image from January 27, 2024, shows a destroyed church in the village of Bohorodychne, Donetsk region. Russian forces have destroyed hundreds of churches in their invasion of Ukraine, the ...
The Transfiguration church was built in the late 18th century, destroyed by Josef Stalin in 1936, and rebuilt in the early 2000s and is part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with official links to ...
LYPIVKA, Ukraine — This Orthodox Easter season, an extraordinary new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka. Two years ago, it also ...
Some church members still have friends and families in Ukraine so the church gets reports on the latest news. “They’ve completely destroyed the infrastructure,” Jackiw said.