The ROC was called to protect the UOC-MP from political attacks

The Russian Orthodox Church advocates to protect the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from attacks from political and religious radicals, said the head of the Synodal information Department of the Moscow Patriarchate (the Synodal information Department Vladimir Legoida.

the reason for the appeal was information about that on the eve of the Orthodox feast of the Intercession of the virgin Ukrainian nationalists agitated to make a " ATO Moscow priests "because on the 14th of October marks the anniversary of the creation of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists - Ukrainian insurgent army.

" It seems to me that the call to the campaign of violence and intimidation against the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on October 14, the day of the feast of the Intercession of the blessed virgin Mary, is cynical and can only come from people who don't have to any religion nothing ", is cited on the Internet representation of the Synodal information Department of the words of Legoida.

He said that from the commissioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate today goes " a large number of messages about violence. " " for example, 5 October, the attempted takeover of the Church of saints Boris and Gleb, Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, October 6, as the saying goes, some people spread in the Rivne region, a leaflet calling for violence against the Ukrainian clergy canonical Church. Share of violence they have planned for 14 October, " said the head of the Synodal information Department.

today, according to information from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, for more than ten churches of the Moscow Patriarchate in Lviv, Rivne, Chernihiv, Ternopil and other areas occupied by force by supporters of unrecognized local Orthodox churches of the Kyivan Patriarchate.

Despite the fact that the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill many times appealed to the Ukrainian authorities with a request to provide inter-religious peace, urging avoid escalating confrontation in Ukraine in the confessional conflict, these appeals until now remain unheeded.

for reviews of the messenger of the Church, this testifies to the fact that " the real division in Ukraine is not between religious communities and among all believers and those who showed interest to citizens of any faith forcibly deprived of life each of a loved one.

" I appeal to all not indifferent people in the Ukrainian state and society with a request to provide security of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the feast of the Intercession, which unites Orthodox Christians around the world, " he finished Legoida.


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