The rector of the OCU, Metropolitan Epiphanius, noted that the people's deputies of Ukraine should develop a special law on the activities of the UOC-MP. This question concerns not religion, but national security, while it is important not to violate the rights and freedoms of citizens, he said during an interview with LB. ua.

" - Everything follows from the previous question about the implementation of the renaming law.

If you want to remain in the Russian Orthodox Church, you must change your name. If the community makes such a decision, it will implement it.. But I think that most communities will not want to receive the name of the Russian Orthodox Church, especially during the war, and accordingly, they will decide to join the united Ukrainian Orthodox Church"

The rector of the OCU stressed that during the war, the issue of national security of the country is a priority. At the same time, in the bill being developed, it is necessary to demonstrate that Ukraine is a democratic country in which it is not forbidden to profess the faith chosen by citizens.

" ) worked and are working until that time for the aggressor, the question arises: what happened before? evidence has been destroyed, I'm convinced.

And what they find now shows that they are an integral part of the Russian Orthodox Church and in the future and in recent decades they openly preached this destructive ideology of the "

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Recall, on December 1, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the National Security and Defense Council asks Verkhovna Rada to ban the work of the UOC-MP in Ukraine. He noted that the government will submit a relevant bill to the Parliament..