Posted on 01/25/2006 9:47:47 PM PST by jb6
Armed adherents of the ‘Kievan Patriarchate’ attempt to prevent a procession with the cross in Ostrog
Moscow, January 20, Interfax - The Ukrainian city of Ostrog near Rovno has witnessed a fight between parishioners of the canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine and adherents of the self-styled Patriarchate of Kiev.
As Valery Kaurov, chairman of the Union of Orthodox Citizens in Ukraine, stated, a procession with the cross was held on Friday there in defense of the canonical Orthodoxy. ‘The procession has been prompted by the incessant attempts of the ‘Patriarchate of Kiev’ for a fourth months now to take away from the parishioners their Church of the Holy Resurrection in Ostrog’, Kaurov explained.
The procession with the cross was led by Archbishop Varfolomey of Rovno and Ostrog. The supporters of the Union of Orthodox Citizens in Ukraine came from the diocese of Rovno and Lutsk in 15 buses to support their bishop and the Church.
Rovno Governor Vasily Chervony, though, forbade the Orthodox cross-procession.
According to Kaurov, during the procession the marchers were approached by the Kievan Patriarchate supporters armed with clubs and knives, who went for them.
On January 22, the Union of Orthodox Citizens is to hold a mass cross-procession in Kiev in protest against the ‘attempts of the Uniates to occupy’ St. Sophia in Kiev and for its immediate return to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kaurov said.
More anti-Orthodox heretical Orange violence. These are the people with whom (who's leader is a former KGB agent) Yushchenko hob nobs with...attempting to do his part to destroy Orthodoxy.
The "church" of clubs and knives?
Klubs, Knives, and KGB.
Oh, you mean like the former KGB agent who is running Russia? Who put all his buddies in charge as governors and run major state industries. Kind of like that? Who has moved Russia back towards authoritarian rule?
That's my favorite line. No tanks or machine guns? ;) Any "Hells Angels" in the crowd, how about some eye-patched pirates saying "Argh!"
This is Russian Interfax reporting on the Russian church- full of bias, nothing more.
Wow, and as I recall you had big problems with reports of miners fighting with Oranges when the miners were armed with sticks and clubs, but since these are your people knives and sticks don't break bones or severe arteries....good to know that.
I don't recall weigning in on miners fighting with Orange supporters. (I came to FR in August, perhaps you're mixing me up with someone else).
And maybe Orange supporters learned a lesson from the miners who were the drunken tools for Puty? Not to come to a "debate" unarmed so to speak? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice....
Nice to see how easily you excuse the exact same evil you condemned earlier....how absolutely hypocritical of you.
Nice try. I don't believe the story from the slanted Russsian source you site. For all I know those beaten were on the other side and the story is spin. Given the past history of violent Russian meddling, I wouldn't blame them for showing up armed for self defense.
Speaking of "hypocrites", still awaiting YOUR responce for Puty and his KGB cronies? Can't say much can you.
Oh that's right, you're the victim, even when your allies are UNA-UNSO...yup, the little victim with the knife and club killing his "oppressors". You display the fact that the Palistinian mentality is not limited to Palistinians.
No, poor little Russians are victims. Oppressed for all those centuries by their giant neighbors, the Poles, Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Georgians etc etc etc.
Wah wah wah.
Cat got your toungue on your hero Puty?
Ahh, guess when the Poles ruled over most of Ukraine, your ancestors had revisionism bred into them. Oh, that's right, Lithuania didn't annex Kiev, West Bank Ukraine wasn't under Polish rule for 500 years. Swedes and Germans never invaded...etc, etc.
The only wah is from your revisionists' minds.
You are a laugh. You whine about Polish and Lithuianian activity of 500 years ago, but are blind to Russias actions in the last century. My parents don't remember 500 years ago, but they have VERY specific memories of Russian oppression. Go peddle your wares another place Moscal.
You are the laugh and the spineless one who covers for what the Poles did to Western Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s. But I don't expect anything else from you.
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