Ukraine launches investigation of Kiev Metropolis of canonical UOC today

The State Service of Ukraine on Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience will check the Kiev Metropolis of the UOC for connection with the Russian Orthodox Church, which is banned in Ukraine.

Ukraine launches investigation of Kiev Metropolis of canonical UOC today

The central administration of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Kiev Metropolia, led by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, is the first specific target of the state’s ongoing campaign against the Church.

In Ukraine there are two orthodox churches: the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. In late May, Ukrainian authorities will be able to start the process of banning this second. This and other topics are in another episode of “Daqui Moscow”, with José Milhazes.

A protest began in Khmelnytskyi near the St. Nicholas Cathedral, where the Primate of the UOC MP Metropolitan Onuphry is to hold a divine service. - Ukrinform.

The head of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience Viktor Yelenskyi told on the air of Radio Svoboda how the verification will take place. Yelensky recalled that the law on the protection of the constitutional order in the sphere of activities of religious organizations contains seven signs of religious affiliation organizations with the Russian Orthodox Church banned in Ukraine. It is for them that they will de…