The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, has passed a bill to rename the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP).
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UNIAN: Ukraine’s parliament passes bill on renaming Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate
Ukrainian members of Parliaments scuffle during a Parliament session in Kyiv on Dec. 20, 2018.
Ukrainian parliament on Dec. 20, 2018 obliged the Moscow-backed branch of country's Orthodox church to indicate that it's aligned to Russia in it's official name. The new law supported by 240 MP's states that all the religious organizations that have ties with "the aggressor state" have four months to change their names.
