17.10.2024, 14:36
Russia's permanent representative in Vienna commented on the suppression of Christians in Ukraine
Source: OREANDA-NEWS
OREANDA-NEWS The silence of the West is an unspoken approval of the suppression of Christians by the Ukrainian authorities, said Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna.
"Outrageous! It's just outrageous! For more than a thousand years, Christians and their church have existed in this territory. They are now being brutally suppressed. Complete silence in the West, which tacitly blesses such behavior of the Ukrainian authorities," Ulyanov commented on the X video on the social network, which captures the forcible seizure of the Archangel Michael Cathedral of the UOC in Cherkasy.
On Thursday, the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOC) reported that parishioners managed to defend the Archangel Michael Cathedral of the UOC in Cherkasy at night, when about a hundred masked people broke into its territory during the liturgy. According to journalists, treasury, documents, computers and icons were stolen from the temple. Videos have appeared showing the invaders shooting at parishioners. Later, the UOC reported that during the repeated assault, supporters of the OCU seized the cathedral, there are victims among the parishioners and clergy of the UOC. Later, information appeared about the hospitalization of Metropolitan Feodosiy of Cherkassy and Kanevsky.
Earlier, Vakhtang Kipshidze, deputy chairman of the Synodal department for Church–Society Relations and the Media of the Moscow Patriarchate, told RIA Novosti that the extremist attack on the UOC cathedral in Cherkasy was a terrorist act carried out with the support of the schismatic PCU.
The Ukrainian authorities have organized the largest wave of persecution of the UOC – the largest community of believers in the country in the recent history of the country. The SBU began to open criminal cases against the clergy of the UOC, conduct "counterintelligence activities" - searches at bishops and priests, in churches and monasteries in search of evidence of "anti-Ukrainian activities." Some representatives of the clergy have been convicted by the Ukrainian courts, and many are under arrest. Hundreds of Orthodox churches of the UOC were forcibly seized by Ukrainian schismatics with the support of local authorities, while priests and laypeople are subjected to physical violence. On September 23, a law passed by the Rada and signed by Vladimir Zelensky came into force in the country, allowing the UOC to be banned. In October, the Government of Ukraine approved legal procedures for further persecution of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
"Outrageous! It's just outrageous! For more than a thousand years, Christians and their church have existed in this territory. They are now being brutally suppressed. Complete silence in the West, which tacitly blesses such behavior of the Ukrainian authorities," Ulyanov commented on the X video on the social network, which captures the forcible seizure of the Archangel Michael Cathedral of the UOC in Cherkasy.
On Thursday, the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOC) reported that parishioners managed to defend the Archangel Michael Cathedral of the UOC in Cherkasy at night, when about a hundred masked people broke into its territory during the liturgy. According to journalists, treasury, documents, computers and icons were stolen from the temple. Videos have appeared showing the invaders shooting at parishioners. Later, the UOC reported that during the repeated assault, supporters of the OCU seized the cathedral, there are victims among the parishioners and clergy of the UOC. Later, information appeared about the hospitalization of Metropolitan Feodosiy of Cherkassy and Kanevsky.
Earlier, Vakhtang Kipshidze, deputy chairman of the Synodal department for Church–Society Relations and the Media of the Moscow Patriarchate, told RIA Novosti that the extremist attack on the UOC cathedral in Cherkasy was a terrorist act carried out with the support of the schismatic PCU.
The Ukrainian authorities have organized the largest wave of persecution of the UOC – the largest community of believers in the country in the recent history of the country. The SBU began to open criminal cases against the clergy of the UOC, conduct "counterintelligence activities" - searches at bishops and priests, in churches and monasteries in search of evidence of "anti-Ukrainian activities." Some representatives of the clergy have been convicted by the Ukrainian courts, and many are under arrest. Hundreds of Orthodox churches of the UOC were forcibly seized by Ukrainian schismatics with the support of local authorities, while priests and laypeople are subjected to physical violence. On September 23, a law passed by the Rada and signed by Vladimir Zelensky came into force in the country, allowing the UOC to be banned. In October, the Government of Ukraine approved legal procedures for further persecution of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
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