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January 2, 2019. The Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO), Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Yakov Dov Bleich called the law  No. 5309[note] On December 22, 2018, Petro Poroshenko signed anti-church bill No. 5309, which is obliging the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) to change its name.[/note] anti-constitutional and said that he would ask the President […]

December 28, 2018. Officials of the town of Glukhov in the Sumy region call on the priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) to move into the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine[note] On December 15, under the leadership of President Poroshenko, the “Unification Council” was held in Kiev, at which the schismatic structures of the UOC-KP and the […]

December 28, 2018. The Ukrainian authorities made an ill-considered political step when they disregarded the norms of international law and adopted the law on renaming religious organizations, said Bishop Victor (Kotsaba) of Baryshevka, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) Representative Office to European International Organization to the Information and Education Department of the UOC-MP. “Even the Main Scientific […]

December 25, 2018. The head of the Law Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), Protopriest Alexander Bakhov gave an interview to the UOC-MP Information and Education Department where he commented the recently signed anti-church bill N5039. He stated, that since 1990, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been officially registered by the government authorities with this very name and […]

December 24, 2018. Union of Orthodox Journalists reports with reference to the ZIK channel, that the Deputy Head of the Department of External Church Relations (Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate) Protopriest Nikolai Danilevich stated: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) will not agree to name change and will protect its rights by all possible legal means “We will protect ourselves […]