In Ukraine, they urged not to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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A petition has been registered on the government portal calling not to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
The petition notes that the ban on the UOC may play into the hands of Russia and that many believers of this church serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On December 1, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky put into effect the decision of the National Security Service of Ukraine, which, in fact, banned the UOC. In particular, Zelensky instructed to submit to the Rada a bill on a ban on religious organizations “affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation”, as well as to conduct an examination of the Charter of the UOC for the presence of a church-canonical connection with the Moscow Patriarchate. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, said that the era of “two-church” is ending in the country. Soon there will be only one Orthodox church in Ukraine, and all ceremonies will be conducted exclusively in Ukrainian.
Earlier, Metropolitan of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church Pavel said that the Kyiv authorities began persecuting the church, and the Assumption Cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra survived the “outrage”. The former ambassador of the Luhansk People’s Republic in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik, believes that the Kyiv regime will not stop at expropriating the churches of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. According to Miroshnyk, priests and parishioners of the UOC are threatened by both persecution and physical danger.
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