Khmelnytskyi RMA declares U.S. Congress-mentioned “transfer” to OCU legal
UOC Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in the village of Kuzmyn. Photo: Radio Svoboda
The acting director of the Department of Information Activities, Culture, and Religion of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Military Administration, Liudmyla Cherevchenko, stated that she has no grounds to refuse the re-registration of the UOC community of the Nativity of the Theotokos in the village of Kuzmyn as part of the OCU.
She assured that the “regional military administration does not interfere in the activities of religious communities”.
“A petition with a package of documents for the re-registration of the community’s new statute was submitted to the regional state administration from the village of Kuzmyn,” the official says. “The documents have been reviewed, the minutes all meet the requirements prescribed by Ukrainian law, and we have no grounds to refuse registration.”
The UOJ notes that the UOC community says the meeting on the transfer was fake and that those who took part were not members of the religious community. After it, the rector and parishioners appealed to the U.S. Congress for protection, since they fear a forcible seizure of their church. Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna stated that she is taking the situation under her control.
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