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Debate about banning Ukrainian church goes on

15-12-2022

Eastern Europe

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Debate about banning Ukrainian church goes on

Ukrainian servicemen searching Orthodox premises in the western city of Lviv. The Orthodox church that is connected with the Moscow Patriarchate is under suspicion supporting the Russian ideology. Photo AFP, Yuriy Dyachyshyn

Eastern Europe

The debate about a possible ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has put the church issue at the centre of the attention. There is still doubt whether forbidding the church is legal.

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