“the Kyiv authorities are persecuting the UOC even though the Church openly opposed the military invasion and declared its independence from Moscow
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“new attempts to seize the UOC’s Ascension Church in Kyiv’s Demiivka district
“the state's decision to seize the churches and property of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra from the UOC is shameful
“government officials accuse the UOC of ties to Russia despite what he described as the actual facts
“The Ukrainian government has literally terminated the right of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to use the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, as it has done for almost a thousand years.
“he declared his organization's right to judge the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
“the UOC community had shown disrespect toward the funeral cortege of a fallen Ukrainian serviceman
“Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine issued strong criticism of the Patriarchate of Moscow, accusing its supporters of challenging the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, interpreting its calls for dialogue as weakness and promoting the ideology of the “Russian World.”