“State Evening Policy asks the court to terminate the religious organization of the Metropolitanate of the UOC as a result of liquidation, and the property to transfer the state to the state”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the Interfax Agency, the court session was postponed because one of the members of the panel was ill.
State Evening Policy asks the court to terminate the religious organization of the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the UOC as a result of liquidation; to transfer property, funds and other assets owned by the organization, except for the cult, to the property of the state.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) filed a counterclaim in court, in which, among other things, the court asks the court
to recognize unlawful inaction
to oblige the service to send it in writing.
In August, the State Service for Ethno -Policy and Freedom of Conscience made a decision to recognize the Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) with a banned foreign religious organization.
According to the report, the research established the affiliation of the UOC (MP) with an organization whose activity in Ukraine is prohibited in accordance with Article 3 of the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Constitutional order in the sphere of activity of religious organizations”, namely with the Russian Orthodox Church.
Earlier, Viktor Yelensky, Head of State Articles, reported that in July the service had sent the Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) to the Kiev Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
The UOC, in turn, rejects accusations of non-compliance with the demands of the Synodal Information and Educational Department of the Church Metropolitan Nizhyn and Prylutsky Clement stated that “all the decisions required by State Entities were made in 2022.”
On August 20, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada approved the Bill No. 8371, which prohibits the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine and religious organizations affiliated with it. The law, among other things, stipulates that the ROC cannot be the owner, a participant in legal entities registered in Ukraine.
According to Metropolitan Clement, the head of the UOC (Moscow Patriarchate), the head of the information and educational department (Moscow Patriarchate), this law concerns religious organizations that are attached to foreign centers, and the UOC, he said, does not have administrative ties with such a manner, and if someone will have a man.
In 2023, the religious examination of the charter of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) showed the existence of a church-canonical connection with the Russian Orthodox Church, the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience reported. The service says that the UOC continues to be in relation to the ROC in relations.
The UOC (MP) called this religious examination “illegal and conducted in violation of the law and one that goes beyond the subject of its research.”