Russia says US behind Ukraine’s pressure on Orthodox church FMTNews FMTWorld
On Saturday, Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, was sentenced to house arrest.
MOSCOW: Russia’s foreign ministry said late on Sunday that the US was behind the pressure that Ukrainian authorities have been exerting on the Russian-aligned wing of the Orthodox Church in Kyiv. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church , which Kyiv says has ties with Russia, defied an eviction order last week from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery in the capital. On Saturday, a top Ukrainian cleric from the church was sentenced to house arrest.
“It’s no secret that the Zelensky regime is not independent in its anti-clerical policy. The Orthodox schism, hitting this sphere of life, is a goal that has been long proclaimed in Washington,” the ministry said in a statement, without providing evidence. “The capture of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra by Kyiv’s current authorities is an illegitimate act from a legal point of view and immoral from a spiritual point of view.”
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