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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights report on violations against the UOC and Lavra

The measures taken by the Ukrainian authorities against the UOC are included into the list of human rights violations in a report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights The government and local authorities of Ukraine took several measures against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It is said about in a report […]

Lavra’s Altar feast celebration of Exaltation of the Holy Cross

On the day of celebration of the world-wide Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, solemn divine services were held in the Kyiv-Caves Lavra in honor of the dedication feast of the Monastery. The night before, the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphrius of Kyiv and All Ukraine […]

Message dated 25 September 2023 from the Holy Synod of the UOC

Message of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the bishops, clergy, monastics, and all faithful children of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church dated 25 September 2023 Your Eminences and Graces! All-honourable fathers! Dear brothers and sisters! In the times of turbulent trials for the Ukrainian people, our Church, like a loving mother, embraces […]

Support words of Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania Anastasios

Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania   His Eminence PAVEL Metropolitan of Vyshgorod and Chornobyl, Higoumene of the Lavra Caves Monastery-Kyiv c\o His Eminence Onufriy Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine Your Eminence beloved brother in Christ, With the deepest sorrow we follow the painful trials of Your beloved Eminence and Your chosen […]

On the decision of the Economic Court of Kyiv dated 10 August 2023

“Everyone witnessed flagrant violations of the law by the court during the trial” – archpriest Mykyta Chekman, the lawyer of the Kyiv Caves Lavra, stated it in his comment concerning the decision of the Economic Court of the City of Kyiv dated 10 August 2023, the Information and Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church informs. […]

The sealing up of Lavra buildings by the Preserve entails criminal responsibility

On 9 August 2023, the Economic Court of the City of Kyiv adopted the decision to dismiss the claim of the Holy Dormition Kyiv Caves Lavra (a men’s monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church) to the National Preserve ‘Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’ on the invalidation of the juristic act concerning the unilateral termination by the National Preserve of […]

Address of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry on the occasion of the Day of Ukrainian Statehood

July 28, 2023 Dear brothers and sisters! Honourable Ukrainians! Dear compatriots! I congratulate you all on the Day of Ukrainian Statehood! This state holiday, which was established two years ago, has acquired special significance for our country today. Today, our people are fighting for preserving our state, for its independence and territorial integrity, which was […]

At the Call of the Heart (interview with Samuel Milko)

Leave everything and come to the Lavra, overcoming doubts and misunderstandings of nthe loved ones, but how one can explain to them that here and now something important is happening not only for the Lavra but, in general, for the whole Orthodoxy, that, wherever you are, whatever you do, your thoughts are still at the […]

Minister Tkachenko is to start activity of ‘folk artistic craft and other things’ instead of Monastery in Lower Lavra

Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko stated on the air of the TV marathon that his ministry was planning to start ‘the activity of folk artistic craft and other things’ in the Kyiv Caves Lavra instead of the Monastery. It was informed about by Ukrinform on 22 April 2023, the Information […]