KyivMOSCOW, March 30 Adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of bills aimed at liquidating the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church church (UOC), will exacerbate the crisis and provoke a new round of civil confrontation, said Vladimir Legoyda, chairman of the synodal department for relations between the church, society and the media of the Moscow Patriarchate. Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of the Moscow Patriarchate. Last year, another similar bill was registered in the Ukrainian parliament.
"The bills aimed at the actual liquidation of the canonical UOC by banning its activities on the territory of Ukraine, recently submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, if adopted, will undoubtedly lead to an aggravation of social crisis, provoke a new round of civil confrontation and exacerbate the split previously provoked by the anti-canonical actions of the Phanar", Legoyda wrote in his Telegram-channel.
He noted that the clergy and believers of the UOC have been years have been attacked and persecuted by schismatics and nationalists, but recently these persecutions have become even more cruel. «There are a number of attacks, seizures of churches by armed people. representatives of the clergy and with the faithful of the canonical Church.I hope that the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and the Representatives of the Ukrainian authorities will show prudence, realize the harm that the possible approval of such bills will cause to the people of Ukraine,» Legoyda emphasized. regions banned the activities of the canonical UOC