In Ivachkiv, OCU members "transfer" UOC believers during liturgy

On July 24, 2022, OCU supporters gathered for the third time at the club in the village of Ivachkiv, Rivne region, to transfer the community of the Nativity-of-the-Mother-of-God parish of the UOC to the OCU, reports the press service of the Rivne Eparchy.

This time the meeting was not announced and was held deliberately on Sunday morning during the liturgy.

"The two previous meetings were scheduled for 4 p.m., announcements were posted, and this time at 11 a.m. Our religious community was at the Sunday service in the church, so obviously the believers could not attend. This was done in order to call it a voluntary transfer," said the rector of the Nativity-of-the-Mother-of-God parish in the village of Ivachkiv, Archpriest Vitaliy Kharkevich.

The eparchy reports that the outcome of today's meeting is not yet known, but it is known for certain that the UOC religious community remains faithful to the canonical Church led by its Primate, His Beatitude Onuphry.

"Today's events in Ivachkiv proved that the OCU supporters have neither spirituality nor a solid foundation of faith. In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord spoke of a careless man who built a house on sand, but the house fell down in a violent storm because it had no solid foundation. The OCU, built on deceit and politics, also has no solid foundation," the press secretary of the Rivne Eparchy, Archpriest Vasyl Nachev, commented on the events.

As earlier reported, a case was initiated against the head of the Rivne Regional Council following a complaint by the UOC clergy.

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