A Moscow-led church in the central city of Zaporizhia refused to bury the one-year-old boy killed on New Year’s Eve because he was christened by a rival church overseen by Kiev. The family of the boy, who was killed as he was being led out of the apartment building by his father, belong to the Kiev Patriarchate. His father, Roman Polishchuk, said the priest of the Moscow-led church they turned to told the family he could not perform the burial ceremony. “The priest said our baby was unchristened and our church was a sham,” Polishchuk told the local news site Forpost. A child christened by the Kiev Patriarchate remains unchristened ... And the Kiev Church itself is a hoax.”A spokesman for the Kiev Patriarchate said such incidents had happened before and only fed frustrations among the faithful in Ukraine.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2018 16:07 UTC