The Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the UOC on the case of termination of its activity

The Supreme Court of Ukraine’s administrative court of cassation has rejected the appeal of the Kiev Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the case on the termination of its activity. The court upheld the decision of the previous instance, which refused to prohibit the State Service for Ethno-Politics and Freedom of Conscience from taking actions against organizations associated with the Kiev Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church while the main lawsuit to ban it is being considered.

According to Interfax-Ukraine, the relevant decision was announced on October 29, leaving the complaint of the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the UOC unsatisfied. The church asked to apply measures to secure the lawsuit, fearing that without them the State Ethnopolitics Committee could send prescriptions to 154 religious organizations within its structure. According to representatives of the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the UOC, this could provoke numerous lawsuits to ban them.

In her turn, a representative of the State Service for Ethno-Politics and Freedom of Conscience said in court that the agency has not sent and does not plan to send such orders to these organizations.

We shall remind you that earlier, Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) of Boryspil and Brovary addressed believers with a call for increased prayer and strict fasting on October 29 and 30. This spiritual mobilization is connected with the upcoming court session, the ultimate goal of which is to stop the activity of the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the UOC.