Earlier, Vyacheslav Gorshkov, head of the Department for Religious Affairs of the State Service for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience (DESS), spoke about the further steps that the State Service will take regarding the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in connection with its refusal to comply with the state’s requirements to eliminate its affiliation with the Moscow Patriarchate. According to the official, in the near future, the DESS will begin the procedure of deregistering all religious communities associated with the UOC and expropriating real estate that the Church uses on a leasehold and free-use basis.
“They are to blame”: Religious scholar accuses the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of violating the rights of the Church
Religious scholar and OCU lobbyist in the media Tatyana Derkach accused the leadership of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of violating the rights of UOC believers. Derkach believes that this is due to the fact that the Church acts “against the state.” She spoke about this in a comment to the Novaya Gazeta publication.
“There is a danger of violating the rights of UOC believers. But the source of this danger is the leadership of the UOC itself, which acts purely to harm the state, thereby provoking new restrictions on its activities,” — Derkach said.
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