Fr. John Whiteford

🇬🇧RECOGNITION OF OCU IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR MACEDONIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH 🇺🇦ВИЗНАННЯ ПЦУ Є НЕПРИЙНЯТНИМ ДЛЯ МАКЕДОНСЬКОЇ ЦЕРКВИ The Primate of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Stefan, spoke about the conditions put forward by Patriarch Bartholomew for granting the Tomos from the Church of Constantinople. Orthodox Macedonians are required to change their name to the "Orthodox Church of Macedonia", to renounce the guardianship of their diaspora and to recognise the OCU. Bishop Stefan stressed that all these conditions are unacceptable for the Macedonian Church. #freedomforUOC #religious_discrimination #truth_about_Ukraine Source of the info. Subscribe to Voice of Orthodox Ukraine, know truth about human rights and religious politics in Ukraine

🇬🇧"STATE CHURCH"- THE OCU, THAT RECEIVES ORDERS FROM TURKEY, OR OUR UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES - THE UOC? 🇺🇦"ДЕРЖАВНА ЦЕРКВА" ПЦУ, ЯКА ОТРИМУЄ ВКАЗІВКИ З ТУРЕЧЧИНИ, ЧИ СВОЯ УКРАЇНСЬКА ПРАВОСЛАВНА ЦЕРКВА? Parliamentarian Dmitruk asks. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is an absolutely autonomous and independent Church, its decisions are made exclusively by the Holy Synod of the UOC under the leadership of His Beatitude Onuphry. The OCU (State Church of Ukraine), in its turn, makes decisions exclusively under the ruling of Constantinople. There is a logical question. Do we need our independent, canonical Ukrainian Church, or do we need a political organization that receives instructions from abroad? #freedomforUOC #religious_discrimination #truth_about_Ukraine Source of the info. Subscribe to Voice of Orthodox Ukraine, know truth about human rights and religious politics in Ukraine

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The Legal Department of the Verkhovna Rada criticized the draft law to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The department denies that this document is needed to "protect national security" and pointed out that the definition of "ROC in Ukraine" cannot be applied to the UOC. "The analysis of the draft law submitted for consideration shows that its provisions do not take into account requirements of the Ukrainian Constitution, inconsistencies with some international treaties of Ukraine ratified by the Verkhovna Rada and inconsistency with other legislative acts." Lawyers emphasize that the President, by his Decrees extending martial law, "has never restricted the rights provided for in Article 35 of the Constitution." That is, Zelensky will have nothing to do with the possible ban, and at the same time, all measures to ban the UOC will be illegal. The Department's experts named a number of provisions of the law that do not comply with international law or do not have legal certainty: The justification given in the preamble of the draft law that the document is needed to "protect national security" does not comply with international law, since the protection of national security cannot be the basis for restricting the right to religion. The law can only contain mechanisms for banning a particular religious organization, and not directly prohibiting it. The term "ROC in Ukraine" (as the UOC is called in the draft law) does not comply with the principle of legal certainty, since the church is not registered under this name, and there is no such organization in Ukraine. The administrative court cannot prohibit religious organizations, this is an illegal provision of the draft law. Such courts are designed to protect the rights and freedoms of individuals and legal entities from unlawful decisions of authorities. Therefore, it is more expedient to attribute the consideration of cases regarding the restriction of the activities of a religious organization to the powers of civil courts. #freedomforUOC #religious_discrimination #truth_about_Ukraine Source of the info. Subscribe to Voice of Orthodox Ukraine, know truth about human rights and religious politics in Ukraine

On May 21, there was the next court hearing in the case against Metropolitan Longin. The persecution of this authoritative bishop has been ongoing for a year “It's time to wake up for people who want to mock God, to mock the Church of God and His servants. Please read the Bible and you will find what will happen to you, to those who fight with priests and clergy. We will forgive you. We love you. But I ask God that He will give wisdom to those people. May everyone know the constitution and the rights of every person who lives in this state. A also ask you to protect my rights. I haven't made bad to anyone. Why have you been persecuting me all year long on the roads. After having surgery." #freedomforUOC #religious_discrimination #truth_about_Ukraine Source of the info. Subscribe to Voice of Orthodox Ukraine, know truth about human rights and religious politics in Ukraine

🇬🇧SHAME ON THESE PEOPLE. THEY WENT AGAINST THE CHURCH OF GOD! Mitropolitan Longin 🇺🇦ПОЗОР ЦИМ ЛЮДЯМ. ВОНИ ПІШЛИ ПРОТИ ЦЕРКВИ БОЖОЇ! МИТР. ЛОНГИН

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Today, the authorities bear responsibility for the barbaric demolition of an operating religious structure. The demolition of the operating memorial temple of the Tithe Monastery in Kyiv is not just a tragic event in the history of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Ukraine as a state – today's authorities have demonstrated their inability to respect religion and once again emphasized that there is no longer religious freedom in Ukraine. This was stated in a commentary by Metropolitan Theodosiy (Snigirev) of the UOC, a human rights activist collaborating with the UN, a member of the International Human Rights Alliance "Church Against Xenophobia and Discrimination". The hierarch emphasized that although the temple was designated as a temporary structure, and formally the court's decision may be lawful, according to the spirit of international law and based on the content of human rights and principles of religious freedom, the state should have assisted the monastery in obtaining proper documentation. According to Met. Theodosiy, this is particularly evident given that the temple building was constructed in the city center long ago, and the authorities could not have been unaware of the monastery's lack of full legalization of this property. "Thus, according to internationally recognized principles of human rights and religious freedom, it is the current authorities of Ukraine who bear responsibility for not assisting the monastery in the documentary registration of rights to the temple building constructed with the tacit consent of the state authorities," the hierarch noted. In his opinion, today's authorities also bear responsibility for the barbaric demolition of an active religious structure. This, according to the bishop, "not only once again violated the civil rights of the believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church but also offended the religious feelings of millions of believers in Ukraine." #illegal_prosecution #freedomforUOC #religious_discrimination #truth_about_Ukraine Source of the info. Subscribe to Voice of Orthodox Ukraine, know truth about human rights and religious politics in Ukraine