We’ll be internationally embarrassed if we ban the UOC, says Parliament committee head

Kiev, December 16, 2022

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If Ukraine were to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, it would only bring legal troubles and become an international embarrassment for the state, believes one deputy and committee head of the Verkhovna Rada, the Information-Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reports.

Nikita Poturaev, head of the Rada’s Humanitarian Committee, said during a recent telethon:

The idea is widespread in society: “Let’s ban some Church.” As a European country, especially as a country that wants to start negotiations on EU membership next year, we can’t do this. This would mean that we’d be sued in the European Court of Human Rights. We are guaranteed to lose this case, and it would be a shame for us as a state and society.

The Humanitarian Committee actually recently approved of the bill submitted by Poroshenko’s European Solidarity Party, but, according to Poturaev, its adoption by the Rada wouldn’t actually mean a ban on the UOC.

The given bill, according to the committee head, would ban any religious organization that is part of a religious institution in Russia, but “According to the deep conviction of the majority of the committee members, there is no such Church or religious organization in Ukraine today,” Poturaev said.

However, as the Ukrainian outlet Strana points out, the bill, in fact, prohibits the activities of any Orthodox Church in Ukraine except for the schismatic OCU.

In fact, Deputy Evgenia Kravchuk, of the same committee, argues that the UOC can’t exist in Ukraine because it’s “actually a division of the FSB [Russian Federal Security Service].”

On the other hand, according to the expert conclusions of the Parliament’s Main Scientific-Expert Department, the relevant bills calling for a ban on the Church actually contradict the Ukrainian constitution and could very well cause a split in society.

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12/16/2022

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Comments
Panagiotis12/18/2022 3:57 am
Are evil people capable of being embarrassed? Are evil people capable of feeling shame? Will the Churches be closed so the gangsters can loot the Churches? Will history repeat itself like when the Bolshevik gangsters looted our Churches under the so-called campaign to remove Church valuables? Has any other so-called democratic country ever done this before? Was this done during World War I or World War II against any religious organization? Would there be an international outcry if this was proposed to be done against an other religious organization? Questions they do not like you to ask. This is part of a GRAND PLAN to weaken the Orthodox Church before the arrival of the Antichrist or FALSE MESSIAH. That is also why they are trying to weaken the Islamic Faith also. Because it WILL BE The Orthodox Christians and The Devout Muslim People that will oppose the Antichrist (Dajjal) or FALSE MESSIAH. Let us pray to Almighty God that ALL Orthodox People everywhere WAKE UP AND OPEN THEIR EYES. WE ARE GOD'S PEOPLE and if we FEAR HIM and HUMBLE ourselves before Him then He will protect us. All Glory to our True God Jesus Christ. Just my humble opinion.
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