Soldiers of the Ukrainian radical Association "Right sector", accompanied by several priests unrecognized by the world Orthodox of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate on the night of Tuesday tried to seize churches of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, is notified on the Internet representation of the UOC-MP.

"The evening of September 28 the residents of the village of kolosovo in the region have witnessed, as the local Church in honor of St. Apostle John the theologian pulled six cars "Right sector" with the young people, accompanied by 4 priests 'Patriarchate of Kiev'. About 30 terrorists held the dissenters to the temple courtyard. To questions of inhabitants Kolosova about the purpose of the "visit" they responded with curses and assured that After a week the Church will be taken away ", - reported in the report.

the press service of the UOC-MP said that one of the residents tried to photograph all event on the phone, but with weapons of a fighter "Right sector" (prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation - ed.) took away her phone and destroyed the SIM card. While the Church has stressed that the police call the villagers did not come immediately.

Comment of the Ukrainian police organization Last news until lacks.

first it was announced that the radical "Right sector" on September 21 captured the Church in the village of Ekaterinovka (near Ternopil) and together with fighters of a battalion "Ternopol - 2" committed the brutal beating of believers, the injured were more than fifteen people, including women and elderly citizens. The authorized Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on problems of human rights, democracy and rule of law Konstantin Dolgov tried to convince international human rights defenders to respond to an attack on a Church in Ternopol region and called the incident an abuse of the Constitution of Ukraine.

now in Ukraine there are several churches of the Orthodox rite is recognized by all the local Orthodox churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) and the Kyivan Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. In the UOC-MP many times reported instances of harassment of priests and seizures of the Orthodox churches representatives of the UOC-KP.

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