Zinkevych: It is necessary to prohibit physical existence for UOC
Mykhailo Zinkevych. Photo: screenshot of the Konkurent TV YouTube channel
"Metropolitan" of the OCU Mykhailo Zinkevych called on the authorities to prohibit the physical existence of the UOC. He spoke about this in an interview with the "Konkurent TV" TV channel.
Zinkevych thanked the Volyn deputies for the decisions to ban the UOC in the Volyn region, but at the same time called them "declarative." He believes that this is only the foundation for further decisions to destroy the UOC. On this occasion, the “bishop” drew up a whole plan of action for the deputies.
He recommended that the local authorities take away from the UOC all the churches that are in state or communal ownership, then the land for the churches, and finally “prohibit their physical existence as a legal structure.” At the same time, Zinkevych is sure that such measures will not mean persecution for faith.
“We are not talking about the persecution of the individual’s faith. A person can believe and say that he or she is Orthodox – no one will prosecute for this,” Zinkevych said.
Earlier, the UOJ wrote that Zinkevych thanked the Constitutional Court for renaming the UOC.
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