Topic of the day

Kiev continuing to prepare crackdown on Ukrainian Church of Moscow Patriarchate – Putin

Moscow, February 21, Interfax - Kiev is continuing to harass parishioners and clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

"Kiev is continuing to prepare a crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate," he said in an address to the Russian nation.

Putin noted that this is not an emotional but a document-based assessment.

"The Ukrainian authorities have cynically turned the tragedy of the church split into an instrument of state policy. The current leadership of the country does not respond to the requests of the Ukrainian citizens to repeal the laws that infringe on the rights of believers," he went on to say.

"Moreover, new bills directed against the clergy and millions of parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate have been registered in the Rada," Putin said.

Print this page

Home

• Ukrainian govt entitled to determine future of Kiev, Pochayev lavras – ministry 08 October 2018, 11:49
• Archbishop of Cyprus objects to politics' interference in affairs of Orthodox Church in Ukraine – Stepashin 08 October 2018, 11:43
• Patriarch Bartholomew invited to Ukraine 05 October 2018, 17:55
• Belarusian Orthodox Church calls on Constantinople patriarch to suspend process of granting autocephaly to Ukrainian church 05 October 2018, 17:29
• Media review: Isolation need not to be feared - Metropolitan Hilarion 03 October 2018, 14:59
• Estonian Orthodox Church condemns actions of Constantinople Patriarchate in Ukraine 03 October 2018, 12:55
• Blood-stained union with Vatican stripped Constantinople of right to interfere in Ukraine's religious affairs - UOC 03 October 2018, 11:07
• Metropolitan Onufry: no tomos will help sinful person 03 October 2018, 10:51
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church urges Patriarch Bartholomew not to mix church with electoral bloc 03 October 2018, 10:39
• Patriarch Kirill calls for pan-Orthodox debate of "Ukrainian issue" 03 October 2018, 10:22
• Communication with schismatics could lead to excommunication, Ukrainian Orthodox Church warns Constantinople 01 October 2018, 12:14
• Unified local church head to be elected at unifying assembly after Constantinople grants autocephaly - head of self-proclaimed "Kiev Patriarchate" 01 October 2018, 12:04
• Constantinople's attempts to justify its entitlement to Ukraine have no legal basis - Russian Orthodox Church 01 October 2018, 11:52
• Alexandrian patriarch expresses solidarity with canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church 28 September 2018, 14:36
• Georgian Church not involved in debate on Ukraine's autocephaly - a senior cleric 28 September 2018, 12:22
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church suggests Patriarch Bartholomew do missionary work in Turkey 27 September 2018, 12:53
• Vatican denies Ukrainian Foreign Ministry statement saying it supports autocephaly 27 September 2018, 12:35
• Russian Church should not be afraid of isolation - Metropolitan Hilarion 27 September 2018, 12:25
• Moscow Patriarchate replies to U.S. State Dept's statement on religious freedom in Ukraine 26 September 2018, 17:52
• Constantinople exarch calls Ukrainian church's movement to autocephaly 'irreversible' 26 September 2018, 17:40
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church outraged by inclusion of Metropolitan Onufry in Mirotvorets database 26 September 2018, 14:02
• Statements by Ukrainian Orthodox Church Synod contradict Ukrainian traditions, appear to be attempt to fan conflict - Ukrainian Culture Ministry 26 September 2018, 12:54
• Synod of Ukrainian Orthodox Church sees appointment of 2 Constantinople exarchs as interference in internal affairs (updated) 25 September 2018, 17:24
• Ukrainian Metropolitan Onufry refuses to receive Constantinople's exarchs 24 September 2018, 11:08
• Ukrainian Church (Moscow Patriarchate) to see parallel institution set up by Constantinople as schismatic - chancellor 24 September 2018, 11:05

Other news