The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine will act toughly in the event of unrest due to the decision to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian church. About it in your Twitter Wrote the head of the Interior Ministry of the country Arsen Avakov.

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“I urge not to allow provocations and speculations. MIA will ensure security and law and order. If there is a need to resist extremism and religious hostility, we will act tough - and let it not be a surprise for all the hot heads! ”The minister wrote.

The synod of the Constantinople Patriarchate had previously begun to provide autocephaly for the church in Ukraine. On October 11, c the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP), Filaret, and the head of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), Macarius, was removed anathema.

The exact date of publication of the tomos (church decree) on the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine has not yet been named. President of the country Petro Poroshenko said that the Tomos will be received after the unifying council of the Ukrainian Orthodox churches with the participation of the UAOC, the UOC-KP and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP).

The secretary of the Holy Synod of the UOC-KP on the TV channel "Gromadske" said that the tomos may be provided in the second half of November.