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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
This is a much larger subject that you do not have enough info on.

I have enough info to know you can't market harassing and closing down the Ukranian Orthodox Church as democracy and freedom of religion.

130 posted on 04/20/2023 8:31:38 PM PDT by woodpusher
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To: woodpusher; UMCRevMom@aol.com; Petrosius
woodpusher: "I have enough info to know you can't market harassing and closing down the Ukranian Orthodox Church as democracy and freedom of religion."

I still can't find a legitimate report saying even one Ukrainian church was closed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

  1. I can find reports of Russians closing Ukraine churches, one such I posted in #121 above, and here again.

  2. I can also find reports of 113 Ukrainian churches destroyed by Russian shelling.

  3. And, I can find reports saying Zelenskyy has asked Ukraine's parliament to close Ukrainian churches linked to Moscow.

      "KYIV, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The Ukrainian government will draw up a law banning churches affiliated with Russia under moves described by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as necessary to prevent Moscow being able to "weaken Ukraine from within."

      In a move condemned in Moscow, Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council told the government to draft the law following a series of raids on parishes that Kyiv says could be taking orders from Moscow as Russia wages war on Ukraine."

  4. And, I can even find were 33 Russian orthodox priests were arrested:

      "Kyiv has long worried that Russia is using the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate to provide cover for a network of clandestine agents trying to undermine Ukraine from within.
      The Ukrainian authorities have said that as of October, 33 priests had been arrested for assisting Russia since the invasion began in February, mostly by funneling information to Moscow’s forces."
But still no reports on how many, if any, Russian orthodox churches are now closed by order of the Ukraine government.

136 posted on 04/21/2023 4:24:01 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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