Ukrainian Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkachenko said Thursday that the Dormition Cathedral and the Refectory Church of the nearly 1,000-year-old Pechersk Lavra — also known as Monastery of ...

Alisa Kupchyn, 18, who stood in the half circle of people outside the church, the Holy Dormition Cathedral, ... has praised the war in Ukraine launched by President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

While the entire Lavra complex is state-owned, Russian-affiliated orthodox priests had rented the Dormition Cathedral and nearby Trapezna Church from the state since the 1990s. In December, their ...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) has said that Metropolitan Epiphanius, the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), does not have permission to hold a service ...

The Ukrainian government has taken the main cathedral of the revered historic Orthodox monastery from the church previously affiliated with Moscow’s patriarchate and allowed its Ukrainian rival ...

KYIV — On a frosty Saturday morning, several altar boys posed for group selfies next to the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital. “It is for ...

Alisa Kupchyn, 18, who stood in the half circle of people outside the church, the Holy Dormition Cathedral, ... has praised the war in Ukraine launched by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.