Kiev Administrative Court bans OCU “hierarch” to liquidate UOC-KP
The District Administrative Court of Kiev. Photo: femida.news
On September 4, 2019, the District Administrative Court of Kiev fully satisfied the lawsuit of the UOC-KP attorneys to secure a lawsuit prohibiting the “metropolitan” of the OCU John Yaremenko from taking any actions to dispose the property of the Kiev Patriarchate of the UOC-KP, as well as to terminate and eliminate its activities, as reported on the Facebook page of the Kiev Patriarchate.
Lawyers of the UOC-KP filed this lawsuit in connection with the fact that at the time of the verdict on the ban on the liquidation of this religious organization, Yaremenko filed a statement according to which Oschadbank of Ukraine blocked the accounts of the Kiev Patriarchate.
In the Kiev Patriarchate, Yaremenko’s actions were qualified as containing signs of a crime under Art. 356 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of authority). The lawyers of the UOC-KP filed an application with the National Police of Ukraine in this regard.
“We want to once again call on all the faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate to strengthen prayer and legal protest,” the situation is commented on the Kiev Patriarchate’s Facebook page.
In the meantime, the authorities continue to re-register the religious communities of the UOC-KP to the OCU, for example, on August 29, 2019, the Volyn Regional State Administration registered 48 such “transfers”.
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