Catholics ask to give them back their church in Lviv – Interfax
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06 March 2012, 12:47
Catholics ask to give them back their church in Lviv
Kyiv, March 6, Interfax – Over 70 parishioners of St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church picketed the Lviv City Council.
They demand that the city authorities should hand them over the church building, which became the House of Organ and Chamber Music in 1988 and since then has belonged to the Culture Ministry, the Ukrainian edition of the Kommersant daily reported on Tuesday.
Believers sang psalms and held posters saying “Give the church back to Roman-Catholics” during the picket.
At present, director of the House of Organ and Chamber Music permitted to celebrate messes there every morning, but parishioners are not happy about it.
Archbishop of Lviv Mechislav Mokshitsky said that divine services were held only in two Lviv churches and none of the churches was conveyed to Catholics.
In his turn, Lviv deputy mayor Vasily Kosiv called Catholics’ claims groundless as “according to the Cabinet of Ministers, the church building is an architectural site and can not be transferred to a religious community.”
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