The article highlights the characteristics of the legal status of a religious organization as a participant in administrative relations: non-entrepreneurial nature and non-profit organizational unity, state registration, property separation, the ability to protect their rights in public law, challenge actions and decisions of public authorities, be a plaintiff in court, to carry out activities to satisfy the religious rights and interests of believers and to spread religious beliefs and disciples. The specificity of the administrative and legal status of religious organizations is that they, as nonprofit organizations, have the characteristics of non-profit legal entities, which have a common goal of creation – joint satisfaction of religious rights or promote it and at the same time they can exist in another state. the right of citizens to unite in certain interests, for which such an entity does not have to obtain the status of a legal entity
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