Nationalists from the " Right sector " completely destroyed, Kherson Church in honour of the monk Barsonophios Kherson Confessor related to the Moscow Patriarchate, said on Wednesday Last news the head of the Union of Orthodox Citizens of Novorossia the public activist Valery Kaurov.
" It was the Church, it was demolished yesterday " prowazeki ", was dismantled, broke bits, crowbars, smashed Windows. Just defeated all, as vandals acted ", - said Kaurov.
for their part, local Kherson website informs that the wooden building of the temple was burned down in an arson attack, based on this fact, the police started rassledovanie.
The Kaurov said also that members of the " Right sector " has developed a special activity in the Sumy eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church." They come to the temples of the Sumy diocese and forced to move to the Kyivan Patriarchate or to at least parallel, serial Ministry in the churches was, " said the head of the Department. According to Kaurov, local clergy, and leaders of the Orthodox communities which do not accord with these requirements, proceed various dangers, and among them threaten generally take their temples.
Ukraine currently operates the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which is a self-governing Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, and unrecognized by the world Orthodox Church - Kyivan Patriarchate (KP) and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC). The Holy Synod of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate on February 24, decided to do a Commission for dialogue with these structures, headed by the Archbishop of Luhansk and Alchevsk Mitrophan.
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