In the Ternopil region increased the number of religious communities
meetings of the Council of Churches under the regional state administration took place on 27 December. In the meeting of the Council of Churches was attended by the representatives of the Christian religious denominations of the Region, the Chairman of the Ternopol regional state administration, Stepan Barna, Chairman of the Ternopil regional Council Victor Ovcharuk and the mayor of Ternopol Sergey Nadal. During a meeting of the Council of Churches discussed the religious situation, state of Church-state and interconfessional relations in the region for 11 months in 2016; changes to the taxation of non-profit agencies and organizations. Deputy head of the Main Department of justice in the Ternopil region on the state registration of head of Department for state registration of Olga Chepurnaya briefed those present on the requirements of the legislation of Ukraine regarding registration of statutes of religious organizations and acquire the status of legal persons. you were Also talking about the celebration in 2017 in the area of the 500th anniversary of the reformation. Head of the Department of internal policy, religions and nationalities regional state administration Igor Kulchytsky stressed that the activities of the state administration is taking all the applicable law for the approval of interfaith harmony, religious tolerance and ensuring rights and legal interests of religious organizations in the area. "The state administration is continuously improving the mechanism of registration of religious communities, which makes it possible to reduce the term of consideration of documents. This year it will be important to optimize it as much as possible, because a re-registration procedure must pass all religious communities.In 2016 prepared by 55 orders of the Chairman of regional state administration. Among them: was 8 the newly formed communities in the new edition of the statutes was 76. Changed the jurisdiction of the 9 communities. 1 the order of refusal of registration and 1 on the transfer of the use of places of worship. Issued approval for 91 of the foreigner on the exercise of religious activities. In General, the region continues to be a tendency to increase the number of religious communities," - said Igor Kulchitsky. The Chairman of regional state administration Stepan Barna noted that now, as never requires us to solidarity, unification of efforts of government, society, Church, around a common goal – the Unity of Ukraine and peace in our land. "I thank you for your understanding and support of members of different religions. Invaluable is the contribution of the Church to help victims of the conflict in the East of our state and Ukrainian army. Your help is measured not only in hundreds of tons of cargo, hundreds of thousands of collected funds, but most of all is prayer and chaplaincy. Sincerely thank You all for your support and contribution to the defense of our country. I believe when we are United we are invincible, and our efforts and hard work are the key to the prosperity of Ukraine", - said Stepan Barna. Reference: As of December 2016, the religious network of Ternopil region consists of 1825 religious organizations (including religious communities 1737) 24 confessions, trends and tendencies, which believers have registered the statutes of their religious community in accordance with legislation. This was reported in the Ternopil regional state administrationÏåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
