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Viktor Yelensky was a member of the Fulbright Scholar Program 2003–2004. Within 2004 he worked at Brigham Young University (Utah, USA).
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Viktor Yelensky headed the Ukrainian journal for religious studies “Lyudina i Svit” (“Human Being and the World”, 1995–2004) and lead the Kyiv Bureau of Radio Liberty (2005–2008). Also on the radio he was the host of the program “Freedom of Conscience”.
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The US has a long history of interfering in the Orthodox Church
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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Zelensky did not ban all of the Eastern Orthodox Churches! He only banned the Moscow Patriarchate. There is more than one Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine. In 2018, there was a ‘schism’—or autocephaly, depending on who you ask—because of US meddling! The US has a long history of interfering in the Orthodox Church!
Some history:
Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
“Holy War”: Russia’s Orthodox Church cuts ties with Ecumenical Patriarchate
Source: US State Dept Paid $25 Mil Bribe to Patriarch of Constantinople to Foment Religious Chaos in Ukraine (archived)
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The Ecumenical Patriarchate, through the Greek community in the United States, has strong connections to the US Democratic Party, and to the US government in general. Patriarch Athenagoras, most responsible for the uncanonical and blasphemous “lifting of the anathemas” against the Papal religion, was elected Patriarch of Constantinople due to CIA* influence and in January of 1949 was flown on the plane of then President, Harry Truman, to assume his role at Istanbul.
[06-13-1992] UKRAINE’S TOP CLERIC DEFROCKED
*Ousting the Ecumenical Patriarch: the removal of Maximos V according to CIA records
Zelenskyy announced a number of sanctions and restrictive measures against the UOC.
Zelenskyy puts into effect NSDC decision on restrictive measures against UOC
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Caveat lector: you may find this intensely dull.
I hope to explain below the parallel war being waged against the Orthodox church and how it impacts on the events in Ukraine. It is a long tale but worth telling.
Orthodoxy and Ukraine
Papacy is back in global politics — that is, assuming it ever left. The gesture by Pope Francis to visit the Russian Embassy in Rome on Friday undoubtedly makes a notable event, for a variety of reasons.
Pope, Putin and Ukraine in crisis
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This past Wednesday, at a very important meeting with the FSB board, President Putin laid it all out in stark terms:
Putin Laid it All Out: “The So-called Policy of Containing Russia”
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