Opposing political force Happy wishes to proceed with the case of seizures of churches in Ukraine
Faction "Opposition bloc" in the Ukrainian Parliament initiates the development of the interim investigation Commission on inquiry of the facts of seizures of Orthodox churches in Ukraine, said on the first day of the week the head of the faction Yuriy Boyko.
"quite a lot of radical acts. Tomorrow (Wednesday - as amended) will initiate in Parliament the development of temporary Commission of inquiry, as the facts appeared, and they very much capture fundamental elements of the Orthodox churches. This applies to most of Western Ukraine ", - said Boyko during the meeting of the conciliatory Council of leaders of parliamentary factions on the first day of the week.
in the UOC-MP before many times reported instances of harassment of priests and seizures of Orthodox churches in Ukraine representatives of the schismatic "Kiev Patriarchate" and the armed nationalist groups, as well As among them militants from the extremist " Right sector ". Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Gennady Gatilov also said Last news that priests and believers are in the East of Ukraine to intimidation and harassment from Ukrainian nationalists, Orthodox churches and monasteries destroyed in the process unleashed by the Kiev military action.
So, at the end of last year saw the seizure immediately with 2 temples Rivne diocese, one of them rushed the extremist " Right sector ". And on the site of the Holy Iversky female monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate at the beginning of winter rushed 10 armed people in a military truck who were presented by fighters of National guard of Ukraine. The military locked the nuns and the watchman in the building of the monastery, previously taking away the keys, passports and phones, and, having shot a guard dog, robbed the diocesan residence: they have stolen valuables, icons, office equipment, kitchen crockery, items, Cutlery items and much more.
Metropolitan Mitrofan of Lugansk and Alchevsk sent to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe a letter, asking them to respond to the incidents of attacks on temples of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
according to Deputy Chairman of the Department for external Church relations of the canonical UOC Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich, nearly 30 temples of the UOC-MP moved to the end grips of the Kyiv Patriarchate.
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