Council of Churches: Churches Not to Be Made Equal to Commercial Organizations

The heads of Churches and religious organizations are concerned about the efforts to deprive them of the special status as legal persons and to make them equal to commercial institutions as regards the procedure of state registration thereof.

The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations stated so at the session of 30 May in Kyiv held under the chairmanship of the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav, reported the Institute for Religious Freedom (ИIRF).

The participants of the meeting discussed the question of the legal capacity of religious organizations which assumed the status of the legal person by way of registration of their statutes but did not undergo the procedure of the state registration envisaged by the Law of Ukraine “On state registration of legal persons and physical persons, entrepreneurs.”