Profile Committee of the Verkhovna Rada urged to vote in favor of banning the UOC

On July 18, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy considered the latest amendments to the bill No. 8371 aimed at banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. According to the results of the meeting, members of the Committee urged MPs to put the bill to a vote in the second reading. This is reported by the website of the Verkhovna Rada.

“Given the fact that the Russian Orthodox Church is an ideological continuation of the regime of the aggressor state, complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on behalf of the Russian Federation and the ideology of the “Russian world”, the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine is prohibited”, — said in the message of the Committee.

The committee’s deputy head, Yevgeniya Kravchuk, added that the document had been amended to strengthen it from an international point of view.

“This is, in fact, a quote from the PACE Resolution, that is, we also strengthen our law with international documents,” — said Eugenia Kravchuk.

Thus, the Committee recommended the Verkhovna Rada to support the bill as a whole as a law. According to the head of the Committee, Nikita Poturaev, the adoption of this law will be one of the momentous decisions for the development of Independent Ukraine.

We shall remind you that earlier we reported that the head of the international human rights company Amsterdam & Partners LLP, Robert Amsterdam, who represents the legal interests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, said that MPs planned to submit for consideration the bill No 8371 on banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church next week.