Rivne city councillors confiscate land plots under UOC churches
A meeting of the City Council that decided to seize land plots under churches from the UOC. Photo: the Regional Council’s Facebook page
On April 10, at an extraordinary meeting of the Rivne City Council, deputies decided to terminate the right to use land plots on which churches and monasteries of the UOC have been built, reports the Facebook page of the regional council.
In addition, the MPs initiated an appeal to the Parliament, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Security Service of Ukraine to ban the activities of the UOC in the Rivne Region.
The Rivne City Council joined the list of authorities that have taken away land under churches from the UOC: earlier, similar decisions were taken by the Berezan Сity Сouncil, as well as by the closed assemblies of several cities in the Khmelnytskyi region.
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