Tag: Eastern Orthodoxy

Journalist to American publication: Ukrainian media antagonize the UOC

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A common theme in journalist Flavius Mihăies’s investigation into the religious situation in Ukraine was the role of the media and social networks in fostering antagonism toward the UOC. This is discussed in an article on The American Conservative’s website.

Journalist to American publication: Ukrainian media antagonize the UOC

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The US has a long history of interfering in the Orthodox Church

Blasphemy: Dumenko “consecrates” the icon with Nazi Collaborators

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Source: Facebook.

On June 18, 2023, in the OCU monastery on the Cossack graves, Serhiy Dumenko “consecrated” a new icon, which they called “With weapons in the hands and God in the heart,” the 104th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for which the image was painted, reports on its Facebook page.

Dumenko “consecrates” the icon with Bandera and Shukhevych

Invisible Ukrainians: A conversation with a professor from the Donbas

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

From the time that Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western media coverage of the war has been dominated by the perspectives of Ukrainians who support Zelensky’s government and who oppose Russia. While it is vitally important that we be informed of their perspective, we cannot truly understand the Ukraine war without hearing from Ukrainians who reject Zelensky’s rule. In the Western mainstream discourse, those Ukrainians are virtually invisible.

Invisible Ukrainians: A conversation with a professor from the Donbas

Ideological opponents of the Ukrainian government are waiting for prison or death

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

This article was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, the head of the Union of Left Forces (For a New Socialism) party, which has been banned by the Zelensky government. The World Socialist Web Site unequivocally opposes and denounces the persecution of left-wing and oppositional tendencies in Ukraine by the NATO-backed Zelensky regime. We call on our readers to distribute the information about the state-backed repression of anti-war opposition in Ukraine as widely as possible.

Ideological opponents of the Ukrainian government are waiting for prison or death

H/T: Stimmen aus der Ukraine: Linken Oppositionellen drohen Gefängnis oder Tod

Zelensky ruins spiritual basics of the Ukrainian society leading it to degradation

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Pressure on the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a passionate supporter of during his 2019 election campaign, began almost immediately after the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Zelensky ruins spiritual basics of the Ukrainian society leading it to degradation

H/T: Union of Orthodox Journalists

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Hierarch: Authorities pretend not to hear about UOC’s patriotic stance

‘Prayer is our only weapon’: Monks at Kyiv monastery resist planned eviction

Government officials ignore numerous pieces of evidence that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has no ties with the Moscow Patriarchate and occupies an unambiguous patriotic position, said the rector of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary, Archbishop Silvester of Bilohorodka, in an interview with foreign media.

Open persecution of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

France delivers to Ukraine Caesar guns, Milan and Mistral missiles, VABs, rocket launchers, Crotale missile batteries. In total, France has provided more than a billion dollars in aid. Not to mention the training of Ukrainian soldiers on French soil. On Tuesday 20 December 2022, Emmanuel Macron announced that France would continue its arms deliveries in 2023. But what is the nature of this armed conflict – in which France is indirectly involved?

Open persecution of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine – Donbass Insider