The Russian Orthodox Church has called on the Ukrainian radicals to stop the seizures temples

The Moscow Patriarchate urged to stop violent actions against believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Patriarchate in Ukraine and to provide immunity temples, the most in the days before Christmas. With the appropriate application voted on the last working day of the week the head of the Synodal information Department Vladimir Legoyda.

before the last working day of the week in the UOC announced the capture immediately 2 temples in Rivne diocese, one of them stormed by militants of the extremist Right sector ". Attacks have become Holy assumption Church in the village of Bird and the Church of Mary Magdalene in the village Badivka in Ostrog district.

" I urge people who barge in temples, to stand, to realize, to feel that such aggression, especially in those days when the Christian world celebrates Christmas, totally unacceptable ", - reported in the treatment of Legoida, which leads the Synodal Department.

authorized ROC drew a parallel With the famous story by Nikolai Gogol " the Night before Christmas ". According to him, " it becomes obvious who associate themselves those who, wearing black masks, attacks before the coming of Christ into the world for the house of God."

" We hear hypocritical statements from those who in one version behind these attacks, but I have no words to explain and not to whitewash the violent actions on loving Ukrainian people coming to faith in canonical Orthodox churches in order before Christmas to pray for peace in their own Country, " said Legoida.

All, according to information from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, to the present time had 14 churches of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine captured by representatives of the schismatic " Kiev Patriarchate ". In addition, at the end of hostilities in the South-East of Ukraine completely destroyed or received of the destruction of almost 90 temples of the UOC-MP.


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