The ROC called the destruction of the UOC a goal of the Ukrainian authorities

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The ROC called the destruction of the UOC a goal of the Ukrainian authorities

The ROC called the destruction of the UOC a goal of the Ukrainian authorities – RIA Novosti, 03/30/2023

The ROC called the destruction of the UOC a goal of the Ukrainian authorities

The goal of the current leadership of Ukraine is the destruction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), official kyiv hates religious communities like … RIA Novosti, 30.03.2023

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MOSCOW, March 30 – RIA Novosti. The goal of Ukraine’s current leadership is the destruction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), official Kyiv hates religious communities as such, says Vakhtang Kipshidze, deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s synodal department for relations between the Church, society and the media. “From 2014, the Ukrainian authorities set themselves the goal not only of radically reformatting the religious space, but also of destroying the UOC. Following this objective, they violated the rights of the UOC, in particular during numerous seizures of parishes. This process took place without the intervention of Ukraine’s law enforcement system, the courts, as well as with a very unconvincing reaction from the international community. Ukraine generally feels hatred for religious communities as such,” Kipshidze told a news conference in the Rossiya Segodnya media group. According to him, the Ukrainian government, with the help of Western consultants, is creating the image of the enemy in the face of the UOC. “The image of the UOC was formed by Kyiv as an image of a collaborationist organization, as an enemy of the Ukrainian people. Then there were searches, detentions and harassment of the UOC clergy, like behind the shadow of the churches, behind the fence of the monasteries, a secret enemy, the UOC, has sat, with whom the Ukrainian authorities have to fight,” he said. Kiphidze. He recalled that after that the authorities began to put pressure on the laurels – Kyiv-Pechersk and Pochaev. “A few months ago, an alternative legal entity was formed in Ukraine, which, as a beneficiary of the right to lease the Lavra, as state property and an object of cultural heritage. This legal entity is registered with of a schismatic OCU. And now the OCU, in collusion with the Kyiv authorities, has given its full support to the raiders’ seizure of the Lavra,” Kipshidze said. A new round of disputes around the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra began with the notification to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine of the unilateral termination of the monastery’s rental agreement, the monks had to leave Lavra on March 29. . Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said the monks could stay in the lavra, provided they were transferred to the schismatic OCU. However, the abbot of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed), said that there could be no compromise on the Lavra, the brothers would stand until the end. He also said that the termination of the rental agreement on the Lavra buildings is impossible unilaterally, a court decision is required, a lawsuit on the inadmissibility of the termination of the rental agreement has been filed with the economic court from Kyiv.

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The ROC called the destruction of the UOC a goal of the Ukrainian authorities

According to him, the Ukrainian government, with the help of Western consultants, is creating the image of the enemy in the face of the UOC. “The image of the UOC was formed by Kyiv as an image of a collaborationist organization, as an enemy of the Ukrainian people. Then there were searches, detentions and harassment of the UOC clergy, like behind the shadow of the churches, behind the fence of the monasteries, a secret enemy, the UOC, has sat, with whom the Ukrainian authorities have to fight,” he said. Kiphidze.

He recalled that after that the authorities began to put pressure on the laurels – Kyiv-Pechersk and Pochaev. “A few months ago, an alternative legal entity was formed in Ukraine, which, as a beneficiary of the right to lease the Lavra, as state property and an object of cultural heritage. This legal entity is registered with of a schismatic OCU. And now the OCU, in collusion with the Kyiv authorities, has given its full support to the raiders’ seizure of the Lavra,” Kipshidze said.

A new round of disputes around the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra began with the notification to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine of the unilateral termination of the monastery’s rental agreement, the monks had to leave Lavra on March 29. . Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said the monks could stay in the lavra, provided they were transferred to the schismatic OCU.

However, the abbot of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed), said that there could be no compromise on the Lavra, the brothers would stand until the end. He also said that the termination of the rental agreement on the Lavra buildings is impossible unilaterally, a court decision is required, a lawsuit on the inadmissibility of the termination of the rental agreement has been filed with the economic court from Kyiv.