Despite threats reportedly growing, fewer than 100 of 12,000 Russia-affiliated parishes have joined the new church -  by Mansur Mirovalev
Kyiv, Ukraine - "It wasn't a search, it was a sacrilege," Father Anatoly Kaplyuk said, describing how

police and intelligence officers interrupted service in his church in the northern Ukrainian town of Ovruch.

In early December, they entered the building that belongs to Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church, one of Ukraine's largest religious groups, to look for "materials inciting religious hatred", police said.
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