UOC receives no mandate for chaplaincy
Dumenko with Shevchuk at the first official military chaplaincy graduation. Photo: ugcc.ua
The Ukrainian State Ethnopolitics Committee has publicized which Churches have been issued mandates, reports mil.co.ua.
A total of 245 mandates were issued, of which 100 were given to the OCU "priests".
Besides the OCU, the UGCC, the Roman Catholic Church, the Ukrainian Evangelical Church, the Ukrainian Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine and a number of others were given mandates for chaplaincy.
The UOC has not received a single mandate for chaplaincy.
As earlier reported, Dumenko with Uniates and Catholics "consecrated" a flag with a Star of David.
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