Ukraine's parliament backs ban on Russia-linked church in initial vote
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, accused of being linked to Moscow, pray while they block an entrance to a church at a compound of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 31, 2023.KYIV -The Ukrainian parliament gave initial approval on Thursday to a law that would ban the minority Ukrainian Orthodox Church after Kyiv accused it of collaborating with Russia following last year's invasion.
By contrast, the UOC flock in Ukraine has shrunk to 4% of the population from 18% before Russia's February 2022 invasion, according to polling by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. Another lawmaker, Iryna Herashchenko, said the vote was a step towards removing"Moscow priests from the Ukrainian land".
The UOC said the draft law, one of several similar bills registered in parliament, did not comply with the European Convention on Human Rights or Ukraine's constitution. A government commission has ruled the UOC is still canonically linked to Russia despite the church declaring that it cut ties with the Russian Orthodox Church in May 2022.
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