Ukraine banned the sale of religious literature published in Belarus

The State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine banned the sale of religious literature published in Belarus. The list of banned books includes 604 books and four publishers: Minsk, Polycraft, Makhaon and Papuri. This is reported by Radio Liberty.

It is reported that since April 2024, the state committee has monitored the literature that is sold in bookstores in Ukraine. As a result of the inspection, the state body demanded to withdraw from sale 604 books by Belarusian and 3344 books by Russian publishers. Among these books, there is a significant amount of literature with Orthodox religious content, which was published under the auspices of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. These include, for example, such books as “Martyrdom in Early Christianity: Essays on Historical Perception” and “Confession. Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky).”

Note, earlier we reported that the cleric of St. George’s Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Lviv Archpriest Alexander Ivanchenko was tried for “inciting religious hatred”. The reason for the trial is the alleged distribution by the clergyman of a book entitled “The Modern Ukrainian Question and its solution according to divine and sacred canons” by Metropolitan Nikephoros (Kykkotis) of Kykkos and Tilliria. The investigation saw in this book “signs of Russian propaganda directed against the foundations of Ukraine’s national security”.