❗️War on worship: Kiev adopts law paving the way to ban Ukrainian Orthodox Church Ukraine’s parliament passed legislation prohibiting the UOC on Ukrainian territory and envisages a ban, which will need to be approved by a court decision, on organizations affiliated with it. Kiev has long accused the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of being sympathetic to Russia and cracked down on the Christian organization in favor of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine - a schismatic structure that came into existence in 2018 under former President Petro Poroshenko. #Ukraine - Boost