UOC Believers Freed from the Besieged Church in Ptycha
People, who have been staying without food and water blocked in the church by the representatives of the Kiev Patriarchate, are replaced. This was announced by the Information and Education Department of the UOC.
"On Saturday, 2 March, we were able to replace people in the church. And yesterday we managed to supply food and water to our faithful, "said the Dean of Dubno deanery Archpriest Anatoly Bogdanov, who is now on the ground in the village of Ptycha, Rivne region.
According to the priest, in the last days the aggression of the UOC KP activists only took the form of verbal threats. "Representatives of the KP community are constantly threatening the UOC. The people who stay in the church all the time are an easy target for abuse and offence. The schismatics promise to deal with them quickly," said the cleric of the UOC.
Father Anatoly says that now on the church territory there are more than a dozen police officers who keep order, the locals – the UOC KP followers, as well as the believers and priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. "Representatives of the district and regional authorities are inactive and ignore the situation", said the Dean of the Dubno deanery of the Rivne diocese of the UOC.
We recall that after a failed attempt on March 30 to block the international highway Kyiv-Chop, representatives of the UOC-KP in Ptycha village blocked the UOC believers in their church without food or water for three days. For a long time, the UOC-KP members in various ways have been attempting to influence the regional authorities and the public, demanding to transfer the Holy Dormition Church to them. They claim to have a right to it. At the same time, the legal ownership right of the religious community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been confirmed in the Ukrainian courts not once.
