UOC: several churches in the Donbass damaged by artillery fire
Two churches and a chapel damaged in Luhansk and Donetsk region in the result of artillery shelling in recent days, received no damage, informs on Tuesday, the website of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
according to the information of the UOC, destruction received, for example, the building stone of Holy Trinity Church in the village of Troitskoe Popasnjanska district, one of the oldest Orthodox churches in the Donbass. In the end, was hit by a missile " iron gates of the Church from the shards turned into a sieve inside fell a few old icons, broken plate, damaged facade ", according to the report.
in addition, according to the international Finance Corporation of the diocese, as a result of the shelling of destruction received the Holy spirit Church of the village Teplohirsk and a chapel in honor of the icon of the virgin "Joy of All who sorrow" in G. Stakhanov.
the message is not informed which of the warring parties could be carried out bombardment of churches. In early January, the press Secretary of the Donetsk eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate George Gulyaev reported that during the conflict in the East of Ukraine, more than 70 Orthodox churches received destruction, and among them 10 were completely destroyed.
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