Arguably, the Maidan coup that installed the Yatsenyuk/Poroshenko regime in Ukraine was and is just one more phase in the West’s war on Orthodox Christianity.
Priest attacked in Kiev dies
Moscow, July 29, Interfax – Kiev priest Roman Nikolayev (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate), died of gunshot wounds on Wednesday morning at the age of 40.
“The venue of the funeral service and the burial place of the newly departed priest Roman Nikolayev will be reported later,” the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reported on its website.
The priest, who was prior of the Church of Great Martyr Tatiana in Kiev, was attacked in a residential building on Heroyev Stalinhrada Avenue in Kiev in the early hours of July 26. The attackers fired two shots to his head.
The attackers left after the attack and the priest was found on the staircase by his neighbor, who called the police. The attackers did not rob the priest.
Father Roman was in a coma before he died.
The investigative branch of the district department has entered the information into the unified register of pretrial investigations based on Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (premeditated murder). A pretrial investigation is underway.
Moscow Times: Orthodox Priest Dies Days After Being Gunned Down in Kiev
A 41-year-old priest from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s Moscow Patriarchate died on Wednesday after having been shot by two unknown assailants in Kiev, the church’s press service said in a statement.
Roman Nikolayev, a priest at Kiev’s St. Tatiana Church, was shot twice in the head on Sunday at the entrance to his apartment. He then fell into a coma from which he never recovered.
None of Nikolayev’s possessions were stolen. The investigation is still ongoing and no police details have been released, according to the church’s statement.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate enjoys a substantial degree of autonomy, but is still formally subordinate to Moscow. It has more parishes than any other church in Ukraine. The Kiev government supports the Ukrainian Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, which split from the Moscow Patriarchate in 1992 and is completely independent from it.
Nun of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate murdered in Kiev
Moscow, July 29, Interfax – Sister Alevtina, a nun of Florovsky Convent in Kiev, was found murdered in her apartment on Wednesday, Interfax-Religion was told at the Union of Christian Orthodox Brotherhoods of Ukraine.
“We know that she went to her city apartment to wash and change before undergoing a surgical operation [there is no hot water in the convent at present]. However, later her nephew found the nun’s body with her hands tied and traces of torture,” a spokesman said.
The late nun was 62 years old.
Interfax has not obtained any official information on the case from law enforcers in Kiev.
This is the second murder of a member of the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in a few days.
On Wednesday morning a 40-year old priest of the Church of St. Tatiana in Kiev, Father Roman Nikolayev, died of gunshot wounds to the head inflicted last week.
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