IN STRASBOURG METROPOLITAN ANTONY COMPLAINS ABOUT PERSECUTION OF UPTsMP IN UKRAINE
During his stay in Strasbourg, France, on 27
April 2015, the UPTsMP chancellor, Metropolitan of
Borispol and Brovary, met with the Council of Europe's director
general for democracy, Snežana Samardžić-Marković.
The
meeting was also attended by a representative of the European
Commission for Combating Racism and Intolerance.
Metropolitan
Antony
was accompanied by the deputy head of the Department for
External Church Relations of UPTsMP, Archpriest Nikolai
Danilevich, and the rector of the parish in honor of All Saints
in the city of Strasbourg, Hegumen Filipp.
Metropolitan
Antony
described for representatives of the Council of Europe the
interconfessional situation in Ukraine and the violations of
rights of believers of the UPTsMP. The vladyka expressed
readiness to cooperate with the Council of Europe in
guaranteeing the rights of believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church on the basis of generally accepted European norms.
As
the official UPTsMP website reports, S. Samardžić-Marković
expressed thanks for the information that was previously
received by the Council of Europe from the Department for
External Church Relations of UPTsMP. The representative of the
Council of Europe expressed concern that such incidents have
occurred and also assured Metropolitan Antony that appropriate
agencies of the Council of Europe will undertake work on these
incidents.
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