{"id":203357,"date":"2024-08-20T12:52:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T09:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=203357"},"modified":"2024-08-20T15:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T12:53:40","slug":"ukrainian-parliament-effectively-bans-moscow-patriarchate-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2024\/08\/20\/ukrainian-parliament-effectively-bans-moscow-patriarchate-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian parliament effectively bans Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Verkhovna Rada adopted as a whole the government&#8217;s Draft law 8173 on the prohibition of the activities of religious organizations in Ukraine, which have a decision-making center in a state that wages armed aggression against Ukraine. According to experts, the UOC (MP) may fall under this definition due to its affiliation with the Moscow Patriarchate.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 265 People&#8217;s Deputies voted to support the draft law, <a href=\"https:\/\/glavcom.ua\/country\/politics\/rada-prijnjala-zakon-pro-zaboronu-moskovskoji-tserkvi--1016301.html\">Glavcom<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The explanatory memo states that the draft law was designed to ban the activities of those religious organizations in Ukraine whose leadership is located in a country that is waging armed aggression against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations issued a joint statement backing the legislation on August 17.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We support the legislative initiative of the President of Ukraine to disable the activities of such organizations in our country, which also has broad political and public support,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verkhovna Rada adopted as a whole the government&#8217;s Draft law 8173 on the prohibition of the activities of religious organizations in Ukraine, which have a decision-making center in a state that wages armed aggression against Ukraine. According to experts, the UOC (MP) may fall under this definition due to its affiliation with the Moscow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":203352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5148,5142,5153],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-church-en","8":"category-news","9":"category-top-en"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Znimok-ekrana-2024-08-20-o-12.22.23-1024x837-1.webp?fit=1024%2C837&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203358,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203357\/revisions\/203358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}