The Phanar head told clerics in Madrid that the Ukrainian government’s persecution of UOC bishops is justified.
Patriarch Bartholomew approves criminal cases against UOC hierarchs
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The US has a long history of interfering in the Orthodox Church
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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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.
Zelensky has given the monks of Kiev’s most sacred Orthodox monastery until next week to evacuate. They say they’re not leaving
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Open persecution of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine – Donbass Insider
The network published another appeal to the President of Ukraine with a demand to stop ruthless repression against the UOC.
UOC parishioner to Zelenskyy: Why are you destroying our state from inside?
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Arestovych about repressions against UOC: Do we want to be idiots?
As previously reported by the UOJ, Arestovych had the impression that the laws to ban the UOC are being promoted by the intelligence of the Russian Federation.
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