November 17, 2009 in Uzhgorod, the press-conference of the clergy of Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Canonical concerning the capture of the Holy Trinity temple by the family of Deputy Public prosecutor of Uzhgorod A.A. Malynych took place at the "Nove Zakarpattya" news agency.
Vasyliy (Tomynets), Bishop of Uzhgorod and Transcarpathian region and priest Sergiy (Manzhos), the patriarchal administrator in Bulgaria participated in the press-conference on the part of UAOC-C.
During the press-conference the clergy of UAOC-C addressed to all people of good will and law-enforcement organizations with a request to assist in renewal of justice and returning of church to the community.
Bishop Vasyliy told, how during a few years Andriy Malynych, Liuba Malinich, Valeriy Velegitskyi, Yeva Krasnyanik through cunnings and direct deception concentrated in their hands the documents of religious community and access to the bank accounts and aimed to destroy the community. But at the general meeting the faithful chose the new head of the parish council V.I.Tomynets . Nevertheless, Malynych and other conspirators try to keep in hands church accounts, to use them at their own discretion. November, 7 they carried out a power capture of the church and retain it. Law enforcement authorities favor this lawlessness with their inactivity.
At the end Vladika Vasyliy marked that the faithful would strive for justice and turning out the conspirators with the help of legal methods and appealed to the present with a request to light up these events for the triumph of justice.
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