Epiphanius (Dumenko), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU), said that soon the Verkhovna Rada will consider a bill banning the influence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) on religious life in the country. According to him, this does not mean a violation of freedom of religion. This has been reported DEA News.
According to him, everything needs to be normalized at the legislative level.
He emphasized that Kiev has cut off all relations with Moscow, but the only remaining organization is the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, which has institutional links with the Russian Federation. For this reason, the influence of Russian religious organizations on Ukrainian territory should be prohibited at the legislative level, Epifaniy noted.
He expressed hope that the Ukrainian parliament would soon adopt the bill.
Prior to that, there was a religious community in the village of Ivanovtsy in the Chernivtsi region of western Ukraine. appeared From UOC to join OCU.
Formerly Ukrainian officials emerging plans to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.