The authors of the address are convinced that attempts by the Ukrainian government to recognize only one church increasingly threatens to undermine the interdenominational accord, causing religious tension in the country.
"This tension is caused by attempts to make changes to the Law on the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations, evicting Ukrainian museums from the territory of the Ukrainian sanctuary the Kyiv Cave Monastery, discussions about transferring St. Sophia – the most joint Christian sanctuary of Ukraine – to the exclusive ownership of the UOC-MP," reads the text of the document.
"We, the Deputies of Ukraine, are deeply concerned about the support you as head of the Ukrainian state, and the government in general, give to one religious organization – the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. …other religious organizations that unite millions of Ukrainian are demonstratively neglected and discriminated by the authorities," state the deputies.