Yelensky: By funding Ukraine, the USA protects religious freedom
The head of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, Viktor Yelensky, speaking before US senators, urged them to continue funding Ukraine to ensure religious freedom in the country.
According to him, religious freedom has been destroyed in the occupied territories, and he implied that in the controlled regions it is at a very high level. Yelensky told the senators that in the event of liberating its lands, Ukraine would bring freedom of faith to these regions.
"Those who help Ukraine protect religious freedom. They expand its space and save victims of religious persecution who find refuge in Ukrainian land," Yelensky assured the Americans.
Whether he told the senators about the large-scale seizures of UOC temples and the implementation of the law banning it, the head of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience did not specify.
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