Pirate attack
Today, 15 November, there was a second barbaric attack on the websites of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate and the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic Church (http://uogcc.org, http://vkpatriarhat.org). Yesterday, 14 November, hired hackers managed to seriously damage the sites. After several hours of work of a computer engineer the websites were largely restored by yesterday evening.
Today, however, the attack was of much larger extent. The hired hackers attacked directly the server on which our sites are located. Since there was a great risk of damaging the server, the server owner was forced to disconnect it from the network. Several dozens of websites hosting on the server were thus out of order. In the words of an expert, the hackers attacked from dozens of computers within a few hours, from about 10:30 to 17:30. This is a criminal offence of deliberate destruction of personal property. Hacker attacks of this type reportedly cost a considerable sum of money.
Who was interested in the destruction of our website and was determined to destroy the server too? Who paid the hired hackers?
A public appeal to the Vatican
Lvov (Ukraine), 19 October 2013
Vatican Secretariat of State
The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate appeals to the Vatican representatives to stop religious discrimination against the believers of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic Church (UO GCC). UO GCC believers separated from the heretical structure headed by Cardinal Husar by reason of his proclamation of heresies. Heresies proclaimed by him are as follows:
1) He questions the Divinity of Jesus Christ. He compares the Incarnation of the Word of God to the pagan attraction “deus ex machina”.
2) He questions the perpetual virginity of the Mother of God. He compares her to the pagan goddess Shakontali.
3) He questions the eternity of hell.
4) He approves of occultism and divines by pendulum.
5) He approves of homosexuality.
In addition to these heresies, he denies the primacy when he says: “Cum Petro – yes, sub Petro – no.”
Stop to eurointegration
Lvov, 19 October 2013
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon UN Committee on Human RightsDear Sirs!
Ukraine grossly and systematically violates the fundamental human rights – freedom of conscience and religion. The Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic Church (UO GCC) therefore categorically demands a ban on Ukraine’s integration into the EU scheduled for November.
UO GCC is no sect but a Christian Church. Proclamation of heresies by Cardinal Husar was the reason for our separation from the UGCC headed by him. Since 2009, our Church has repeatedly applied for registration with state authorities. Department on Religions and Nationalities in the Ministry of Culture denies our registration for fabricated reasons. This is the initiative of Husar’s hierarchy who consequently purposefully label our Church as a destructive sect. They continuously foment religious hatred against our religious minority. State authorities as well as mass media are involved in this physical and spiritual lynching action.
Stop to eurointegration – religious discrimination
On 17 October 2013, Lvov
Stefan Füle, EU Commissioner Members of the European Parliament BrusselsDear Sir,
dear Members of the European Parliament!
Sisters of the Monastery of St Prophet Elijah in Lvov hereby publicly warn EU leaders and the European public about gross violations of human rights in Ukraine. Unless and until the issue of blatant religious discrimination is settled, it is not possible to deal with the issue of Ukraine’s integration into the EU.
Our contemplative monastery was founded in 1925. At the time of Communism, our Sisters lived in the catacombs.
In 2008 our monastery separated from the UGCC (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) structure headed by Cardinal Husar and on 1 May 2011 from the Vatican. The response to this was that the UGCC hierarchy did not respect our right to freedom of conscience but began to discriminate against our Sisters through the mediation of state authorities.
Stop to piracy on Athos
Lvov (Ukraine), 9 August 2013
To President and Government of Greece
The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate hereby turns to the President and Government of Greece with a protest against the violent action against the faithful monks at the Esphigmenou Monastery on Mount Athos dating back to the 5th century. Full responsibility for this criminal attack rests with the Government of Greece.
On 29 July 2013, there was a piratical action against the monks, appealing to a verdict of the court. We ask: What court? Ecclesiastical or secular? It is a hypocritical verdict against monks who committed no crime against God, against the Greek nation or against the Church.
On the other hand, ex-Patriarch Bartholomew committed a crime against God and the Church when by his syncretistic gesture in Assisi on 27 October 2011 he revealed a heretical attitude placing the worship of the Triune God on the same level as the worship of pagan demons.
Seminarians and priests wearing masks of terrorists
Today, on 17 November 2012, at seven o’clock in the morning about 20 men in masks broke into the monastery of contemplative sisters in the village of Probizhna, Ternopol region, Ukraine. These were priests and seminarians of the UGCC (Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church). They climbed a ladder to the second floor, broke the window in the chapel and invaded the monastery. The sisters just barely managed to take the Eucharist from the tabernacle. The attackers started to beat the sisters, kick and swear at them, and violently brought one by one out of the house under the supervision of the local priest, Zenobius Pasichnyk (UGCC) who was watching the brutal action from a distance. The assaulters stole a mobile phone and a computer from the sisters, took the computer into the church and removed its memory. They also stole a camera, so that the sisters could record nothing of these brutal acts of violence.
