OSCE collects information on violation of UOC believers’ rights in Kuty and Borovaya
On September 21 in Shumsk clerics of Ternopol diocese of the UOC met with the representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine of Ivano-Frankovsk Unit. The clergy and representatives of Kuty parish told the observers about circumstances of the forcible takeover of their church by the adherents of the “Right Sector” and Kiev Patriarchate, as well as other facts of discrimination of the UOC believers’ rights in the village.
It was also noted that currently members of the Kiev Patriarchate in the village exacerbate an inter-faith conflict by resorting to provocative behavior. In particular, one of the village residents, a local school teacher and a supporter of the UOC KP, tells schoolchildren at schools that buying candles in the UOC temples, people buy bullets for Ukrainian soldiers.
it was reported earlier that similar disinformation is disseminated by the “Right Sector” members in Ternopol during divine services in the local UOC Cathedral.
A day before a resident of Borovaya town, who had transferred her property to build a church of the UOC, totally destroyed two weeks ago, met with an observer of Kiev representative office of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine Fernando Herrera Inaraja. The observer was reported details of an illegal destruction of the private property, as well as stirring up inter-faith hatred and inciting local residents to animosity towards the UOC faithful by the MPs and public activists.
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