Legal Dept: OCU raided 250 UOC churches, another 100 are in line
Archpriest Alexander Bakhov. Photo: Youtube.com screenshot
Archpriest Alexander Bakhov, head of the Legal Department of the UOC, spoke about the raider seizures of the temples of the UOC during the press conference "Results of the activities of the UOC in 2022", which takes place on December 29 in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
“About 250 raider seizures of the religious communities of the UOC have been recorded. About 100 raider seizures of communities are in the pipeline,” said Archpriest Alexander.
As reported by the UOJ, the head of the Legal Department of the UOC said that today there are about 70 decisions of local governments to ban the activities of the canonical Church.
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