Close to 30 Lviv residents picketed in front of the Lviv City Council on June 30. They demanded the return of a chapel on Pluhova Street, which was seized by sectarians.
As reports ZAXID.NET, the chapel, which had been used as a warehouse, was seized by so-called Pidhirtsi Fathers. “They bought the dilapidated chapel and unlawfully began to renovate in order to create a center,” said one of the residents of Pluhova Street.
She also said that she and her neighbors hope that the chapel is transferred to a “real church” to be used for worship.
The Chapel of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Lviv on 6 Pluhova Street once belonged to Redemptorist priests. During the Soviet times it was used for storage, and recently renovation work has begun without any permission. It appears that the new owners of the building – which for years the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and in particular the Redemptorist congregation have been trying to take over – are people who call themselves “monks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church (UOGCC).”