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Russian Orthodox Church a ‘national security threat’ to Ukraine, says president
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 28, 2018 09:56pm |
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| Author | Kait Bolongaro |
| News Date | Saturday, July 28, 2018 03:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday called the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church a national security threat.
At a ceremony marking the country’s conversion to Christianity 1,030 years ago, AFP reported that the Ukrainian leader said that the Russian church’s sway among Ukrainian believers is a “direct threat to the national security of Ukraine.” The head of state also added that “this obliges us to act.”
There are two branches of the Orthodox Church active in Ukraine: the Russian church and its Ukrainian cousin. The former, whose clerics are loyal to the patriarch in Moscow, has the most adherents, according to the report. The Ukrainian church and its patriarch are based in Kiev.
“I believe it is absolutely necessary to cut off all the tentacles with which the aggressor country operates inside the body of our state,” said Poroshenko, speaking about the Russian church. |
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