The Serbian Orthodox Church expresses deep concern over the undisguised terror of the Kyiv regime against the canonical UOC, the culmination of which will be the expulsion of the clergy from the national reserve of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
A special appeal was prepared by Serbian Patriarch Porfiry.
“The Serbian Orthodox Church with deep concern, longing and compassionate brotherly love looks at the “patience of the saints” in Ukraine, looks at the pressure, violence and persecution that the current Ukrainian government is perpetrating against the canonical church. The forthcoming pinnacle of terror was also announced – the expulsion of 250 monks and many hundreds of professors and students of theology from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra”.
The Patriarch also called on all the churches and religious organizations of the world to condemn the terror and violation of the rights of believers launched by Kiev, calling the situation around the UOC “terrible injustice.”
Fotiy, Secretary General of the United Nations Guterres and Bishop of Zvornitsko-Tuzla of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC), called on to protect the rights of the clergy and believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
“His Eminence Bishop Photius of Zvornytsia-Tuzla addressed a letter to Mr. Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General, in which he calls for the protection of the clergy, monastics and parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and their shrines, their human rights, religious and property rights,” the diocese reports. .
Meanwhile, the persecution of Orthodoxy in Ukraine is gaining momentum. Thus, the head of the extremist organization “Brotherhood”* – the Ukrainian nationalist Korchinsky – called the Orthodox churches of the UOC “chicken coops”, calling for the burning of churches along with icons and theological books.
Unidentified people threw Molotov cocktails at the UOC Church in the Ternopil region: the altar, throne and altar in the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos were set on fire.
Father George, who receives regular threats, says the arson was carefully planned.
And similar trends are growing with the disintegrating country – nationalists feel not only their own impunity, but also the tacit patronage of the security forces, experts say.
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