Kamyanets-Podilskyi City Council takes 20 plots under churches from UOC
Session of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi City Council April 4, 2023 Photo: kam-pod.gov.ua
On April 4, 2023, the Kamyanets-Podilskyi City Council at its session decided to withdraw 20 land plots from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. In particular, the deputies supported 19 projects on the termination of land use and one on the abolition of the lease. This is stated in the message entitled "No to the enemy church", published on the web resources of the City Council.
Thus, the city council expropriated all the plots for churches, chapels, the administration of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi diocese and other premises of the UOC.
Also, the participants of the session voted for three appeals: to the President, the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Khmelnytsky Regional State Administration to ban the "Moscow Patriarchate"; to the President and the government to terminate agreements with the UOC on the lease or use of state-owned facilities; to Metropolitan Theodore of Kamyanets-Podilskyi and Horodok to withdraw the Kamyanets-Podilskyi diocese of the UOC “from the Russian Orthodox Church”.
As reported by the UOJ, on April 4, the Khmelnytskyi City Council deprived the UOC of the rights to the land plots on which churches, the John the Baptist Monastery and the diocesan administration were built.
On April 2, the representative of the press service of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi City Council, Alla Chepelyuk on the social network called on the residents of her city to follow the example of the raiders who seized the UOC Cathedral in Khmelnyskyi.
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