The Verkhovna Rada banned the activities of the russian church in Ukraine.
A total of 265 MPs voted for the bill 8371, out of the minimum required 226.
This was announced in his Telegram channel by Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Holos faction, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
According to the adopted bill, the activities of foreign religious organizations located in a state that is recognized as having carried out or is carrying out armed aggression against Ukraine and/or temporarily occupying part of the territory of Ukraine, as well as directly or indirectly (including through public speeches of managers or other management bodies) support armed aggression against Ukraine.
It is assumed that the activity of religious organizations affiliated with a foreign religious organization, the activity of which is prohibited in Ukraine, should be terminated.
It is established that a religious organization operating in Ukraine cannot have a management center (management) in the russian federation.
A commission will also be created that will conduct research into the existence of connections, affiliation with Moscow, or research into the facts of the spread of the ideology of the "russian world".
The conclusions of the religious examination, information of other central executive authorities, data of public electronic registers, as well as information received from individuals and/or legal entities, from the media and other open sources may be used during the review.
In the future, the results of the examination will be studied by the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, which will issue a prescription in case of violations.
The religious organization is given 2 months to comply with the requirements of the order, severing ties with the russian federation, taking into account the administrative appeal procedure.
If the organization's ties with the aggressor state have not been severed within 60 days, the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience will apply to the court.
The text of the document emphasizes that no provision of the law can be interpreted as limiting the freedom to practice religion or belief, the right to observe religious practices and ritual rites.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy once again recommended to the Parliament to adopt in the second reading the bill banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
During the last consideration of the bill, deputies blocked the Verkhovna Rada tribune demanding to consider the ban on the russian church, which caused the session to end early.
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