Near Rada protest against religious repression
Believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are protesting under the walls of the Verkhovna Rada. Several hundred people read a prayer service in front of the parliament building on the day when the so-called “church laws” were to be adopted there.
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Believers opposed the adoption of bills No. 4511 and No. 4128, which give the authorities the right to approve the appointment of clergy or completely ban one or another religious organization that, according to officials, is collaborating with the “aggressor country.”
“There was no preliminary discussion of the bills. Today we are witnessing that precisely on the centenary anniversary of the beginning of anti-religious repressions, the state is trying to pass laws that, in essence, are absolutely repressive. Repressions against the UOC are not only discrimination against some institution, some institution. The UOC is millions of Ukrainians,” said the head of the Synodal Information and Educational Department of the UOC, Bishop Kliment (Evenings).
Protests against religious repression near the Rada