War in ukraine

☦️ 🇺🇦 Zelensky is banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

One country, two churches

According to Metropolitan Epiphanius, the leader of Kyiv's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, as of January 2020, 7,097 Orthodox parishes in Ukraine were subordinate to the Kyiv-controlled Church, while the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate controlled an astonishing 12,410 parishes.

Starting from Nov. 22, Ukraine's law enforcement has raided several premises of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP).

The latest search occurred on Nov. 28 in western Ukraine.

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) alleged that the church was at the heart of "subversive activities by Russian special services."

Despite the UOC-MP's official statement declaring "independence" from the Russian Orthodox Church in May and "condemning the war".

📎 Kyiv Independent

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