Category Archives: Ukraine

Ukrainian MP’s hate speech against UOC believers appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office

July 7, 2016. The publication of political expert Yuriy Romanenko on the necessity to crucify “Moscow priests” served as a handle to appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office, as reports UOJ. Member of the Parliament Yevgeniy Murayev requests the authority to take a look at Romanenko’s post in Facebook and, if necessary, to bring the political expert to justice for […]

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National Rada banned Orthodox TV channel “Union”

July 7, 2016. The National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio decided to amend the List of foreign programs permitted for broadcast on the territory of Ukraine. 9 Russian channel programs were excluded from the list, including Orthodox channel “Union”, when American erotic channel “Penthouse HD” was included, as the Union of Orthodox Journalists reports. According to the information […]

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Ukrainian Orthodox Church descriminated by state governement

June 28, 2016. To the solemn session on the occasion of 20th anniversary of the Constitution of Ukraine, there were invited primates of all denominations, except for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which appears as a violation of the citizens’ equality on grounds of religious affiliation, as reports UOJ. Reportedly, this session was attended by the country’s political actors, representatives of […]

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Religious discrimination of Ukranian Orthodox Church clergy

June 21, 2016. Kamensky (former Dneprodzerzhinsky) City Council does not recommend inviting the UOC priests to public events, as reports UOJ. A particular attention is paid to schools. The head of the Municipality’s Education and Science Directorate calls to carry out “awareness-raising”. In the explanatory part of the document it is stated that there are parishes of the Kiev Patriarchate, […]

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