Rivne city councillors confiscate land plots under UOC churches

A meeting of the City Council that decided to seize land plots under churches from the UOC. Photo: the Regional Council’s Facebook page

On April 10, at an extraordinary meeting of the Rivne City Council, deputies decided to terminate the right to use land plots on which churches and monasteries of the UOC have been built, reports the Facebook page of the regional council.

In addition, the MPs initiated an appeal to the Parliament, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Security Service of Ukraine to ban the activities of the UOC in the Rivne Region.

The Rivne City Council joined the list of authorities that have taken away land under churches from the UOC: earlier, similar decisions were taken by the Berezan Сity Сouncil, as well as by the closed assemblies of several cities in the Khmelnytskyi region.

Read also

UOC Primate celebrates Divine Liturgy at Holosiiv Monastery

Metropolitan Onuphry blessed students at the start of the new academic year.

Poland's Constitutional Court Declares Registration of Same-Sex Marriages Illegal

The judges unanimously overturned the Ministry of Digitalization's order recognizing same-sex unions.

Jerusalem bishop on Sviatohirsk: A society that kills monks is defenseless

A hierarch of the Jerusalem Church commented to the UOJ on the killing of Monk Varsonofiy at the Sviatohirsk Lavra and called for the investigation to be pursued to its conclusion.

Chief rabbi: Jews feel safer in Ukraine than even in U.S.

According to Ukraine’s chief rabbi, Jews in the West are often forced to conceal their background and religious identity.

OCU uses recorded choir track during “service” at Lavra

During a “liturgy” at the Church of the Conception of St. Anna, OCU representatives played a recorded choir track.

A meeting of Orthodox youth took place in the Rivne Diocese

The clergy of the Mlyniv Deanery brought together about fifty young people in the outdoors.