What did you expect?
Posted on 12/04/2022 6:41:46 PM PST by marshmallow
Moscow, December 2, Interfax - The Moscow Patriarchate considers the Ukrainian authorities' intention to ban Russia-linked religious organizations to be targeting the most vulnerable part of Ukraine's population.
"The Ukrainian leadership are prepared to act against their own population, and the most defenseless and unobjecting kind at that, the believers and the clergy of the largest and the only canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine," Russian Orthodox Church spokesperson Vladimir Legoyda said on Telegram on Friday.
He was commenting on a decree by Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky, which would pave way for a total ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).
Not only does the bill encroach on the norms of law, it also indicates the "loss of remnants of common sense," given that the UOC has always supported its people and the Ukrainian state in every way it could, always calling for peace and praying for peace, Legoyda said.
Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council has decided that the bill should conform to international law in the sphere of the freedom of conscience and Ukraine's obligations as a member of the Council of Europe, he said.
"How this task will be implemented, if a breach of the freedom of conscience is the aim and essence of this bill, remains a mystery," Legoyda said, while worrying about "political games [using] as a bargain chip the innocent people - ordinary believers and the humble, honest priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, whose sole blame is their keeping the faith of their fathers," Legoyda said.
What did you expect?
I’m sure UMCRevMom is in deep prayer about this.
Europe will Europe.
They have state religions and when you are a member of the religion of another state you are going to have these kind of issues.
Putin and Kirill make such a cute couple! Making eyes at each other like lovestruck teenagers! Who said romance was dead?
Good morning. It is 6:26 am in St. Petersburg, Russia. You are on the first shift.
So much for freedom of concience for the Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian Christians.
Well, fascists gotta fascist. I feel for Christians in Ukraine. For some, their trial will be severe.
Church of spies. In the US too, by the way.
“Secular and decadent societies, like those in the West, always fail and collapse.”
Russia is much more secular than us. Far more atheists, far more abortions, etc.
What thus will there fate be?
You know your on the wrong side when you go after churches. They did it here is the USA when Covid fear gripped the nation and it was wrong. This move by Ukraine only shows their true nature.
I have no dog in this fight but trying to hold up one side as being on the side of light is not to look at all the evidence.
The title of the article is incorrect. The parliament is mulling a ban on the clergy that supports the Moscow patriarch. Namely the Russian Orthodox church in Ukraine.
There is no move to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox church, an autocephalous church since 2018.
The reason for the attempted ban is that the Moscow patriarch not only openly supports Putin’s war, he is deeply tied to Putin.
“They have state religions and when you are a member of the religion of another state you are going to have these kind of issues.”
Technically Russia does nit have a state religion.
Sweden, denmark a d the UK do. Not other European countries. A d no, you don’t have issues being a Baptist or jehovah’s witnesses or Adventist in those countries
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