UOJ barred from roundtable discussion on criticism of UOC

The organizers of the round table "The Moscow Patriarchate in the Russian War against Ukraine" refused to accredit the UOJ for the event due to take place in Kyiv on 31 October. The head of the Foreign Policy Research Institute Hryhorii Perepelytsia, in response to an official request, told the UOJ that the request had been denied because of the "bias" of the resource.

The round table organized by the Foreign Policy Research Institute, together with the Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions, is expected to consider the activities of the UOC "as a threat to the national security of Ukraine" and also to discuss the questions: "Why is the SBU against the transfer of religious communities from the UOC to the OCU?" and "What to do about the presence of the UOC as the Russian Church in Ukraine?".

Among the participants are the OCU spokesperson Ivan (Yevstratii) Zoria, one of the "fathers" of the OCU's Tomos, MP Rostyslav Pavlenko, religious scholar and active critic of the UOC Oleksandr Sagan, and functionary and publicist Serhiy Zdioruk, who also actively criticizes the UOC.

As reported, the Foreign Policy Research Institute announced a sociological survey on the possibility of the unification of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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