State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience

No UOC Parishes Included in DESS’s Updated Critical Organizations List DESS Seeks to Liquidate UOC Rovenky Eparchy in Court UOC Hierarch Condemns Ukrainian Media After Reports on Pochaiv Lavra Pilgrimage Kyiv Court Delays UOC Dissolution Case Until September DESS Head Acknowledges UOC Could Prevail at European Court of Human Rights UOC Challenges Legality of State Service UOC Lawyer Calls for Prayers Ahead of Major Court Hearing Viktor Yelensky. Photo: Ukrinform Yelensky: International Religious Bodies Oppose Mobilization of Clergy in Ukraine Source: UOJ Ukraine Ukraine Supreme Court Advances Case on Monastery Liquidation Meeting in the Vatican. Photo: DESS press service Vatican Speaks Out Against Banning UOC Faithful of the UOC outside the courthouse. Photo: Telegram channel “Fortress Lavra.” Court Postpones Hearing on State’s Bid to Ban Kyiv Metropolis of UOC Once Again Faithful outside of the Kyiv Appellate Court. [CREDIT: UOJ - SPZh] Hearing on Ban of the Kyiv Metropolis of the UOC Postponed Catherine Whiteford is Co-Chair of the National Young Republicans and an Orthodox Christian. Photo:catherinewhiteford.com BREAKING: Republican Leader Tells Ukrainian Judges to 'Oppose Tyranny' Ahead of Hearing to Ban UOC Viktor Yelensky. Photo: DESS press service Criminal Cases Opened Against Yelensky for Inciting Interreligious Hatred Ukrainian MP Vyatrovych: “Law Banning the UOC Is Now Being Put into Practice” Ukrainian MP Vyatrovych: “Law Banning the UOC Is Now Being Put into Practice”