Bohdan: OCU wanted the state to call UOC "ROC in Ukraine"
Olena Bohdan. Photo: LB.ua
In an interview with Radio Svoboda, the former head of the State Ethnopolitics Olena Bohdan spoke about the details of her dismissal from her post and about the role of the OCU in creating a negative information background around the canonical Church.
“There was developing a very negative informational background. The issue of the Lavra (Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra – Ed.) was perceived in such a way that it is the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience that does not allow the OCU to enter the Lavra,” said Bohdan.
She also stated that the OCU was clear in its preference to the effect that that the state authority should call the UOC “the Moscow Patriarchate”, and it is better to rename it to the "ROC in Ukraine".
“We have ended up in such a disappointing situation, when a public authority works on the principles of the rule of law and acts from the standpoint of constitutional principles, but there is a demand for other actions. There is a request to find a way to disband the UOC,” stressed the ex-head of the State Ethnopolitics.
As the UOJ reported, the former head of the State Ethnopolitics warned that the church issue in Ukraine could turn into a tragedy.
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