Kyiv, Ukraine – “It wasn’t a search, it was a sacrilege,” Father Anatoly Kaplyuk said, describing how police and intelligence officers interrupted service in his church in the northern Ukrainian town of Ovruch.
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The vicar of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Kyiv Monastery of the Caves), Metropolitan Pavel of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) gives a press briefing due to the SBU carrying out a search at the place of residence in Kyiv Pechersk Lavra on Nov. 30, 2018.
