Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metropolitan Epiphany of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine [OCU] assures that the monastery on the territory of the Kyiv Pechersk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Commercial Court of Kyiv has recognised the termination of the contract of free use concluded between the Holy Dormition ...

Ukraine has ordered Moscow-affiliated clerics to leave Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, the country’s most important Orthodox monastery, by the end of March. Here is background on the site and the developments ...

In a bitter dispute over a famed Orthodox monastery, Ukraine’s top security agency notified a leading Orthodox priest there on Saturday that he was suspected of justifying Russia’s aggression, a ...

Metropolitan Pavel stressed that the monastery was ready to cooperate with the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Historical and Cultural Reserve, but dismissed suspicions that the monks intended to remove the ...

Tens of thousands of Kiev residents took to the streets earlier this week in protest and prayer. The reason was an announcement on March 10 by the Zelensky government that the Ukrainian Orthodox ...

It is underscored that there are no grounds for expulsion of the monks who live here and are registered here MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Monks from the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra will not leave the monastery, ...

Force will not be used to evict representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, ...

(RNS) — Dozens of Orthodox Christians who support their church’s historic ties to Moscow prevented Ukrainian authorities from taking possession of buildings at the Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv, ...

(RNS) — The monastery’s fate has been in question since Russia’s invasion in February 2022 has brought a series of crackdowns on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has historical ties to Moscow.

A documentary on the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is one of the oldest and most valuable treasures inherited from Kyivan Rus. It has always been revered worldwide as the most ...

Crowds of visitors have packed the dozens of services at Kyiv’s Monastery of the Caves in Ukraine in recent days to receive sacraments, pray and kiss holy relics of saints in the catacombs — fearing ...