Kovel City Council strips UOC parishes of the right to use land plots
A session of the Kovel City Council. Photo: kowelrada.gov.ua
In Kovel, Volyn region, the City Council decided to terminate the right to use land plots for communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, reports the press service of the mayor's Office.
The deputies deprived 14 UOC parishes in Kovel and in the villages of Horodilets and Belin, which are part of the Kovel territorial community, of land plots under churches.
As reported, the lawyer of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Archpriest Nikita Chekman said that by taking away land from the UOC parishes, local councils go beyond their authority, and such decisions have signs of a criminal offence.
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