The first Divine Liturgy will be celebrated on Friday, February 23.
The project, to be completed in 2025, will make the western part of the monastery enclosure accessible to the public.
On Saturday, February 17, a delegation from the World Council of Churches, led by General Secretary Dr. Jerry Pillay, visited His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem.
Under the open sky, by the gates of the church, a paraklesis to the Mother of God with the akathist to the Meeting of the Lord was prayed.
In its statement, the Lavra explains the government’s deceptions and describes the truth of the situation surrounding the Lavra and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as a whole.