A Ukrainian MP called for ‘hunting’ down and ousting all priests loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church, contrary to promises they won’t be persecuted. It came after Kiev proclaimed its own church to be independent from Moscow.
Dmitro Yarosh,
Until last weekend there were three Orthodox Christian churches in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is an internationally-recognized autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church. The two others were self-proclaimed and universally considered schismatic.
On Saturday, the latter two unified into an Orthodox Church of Ukraine, an organization purporting to be part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Priests of the canonical Church were invited to participate and break ties with Moscow, but only two did.
According to Dmitro Yarosh, a far-right Ukrainian MP, the Ukrainian priests who stayed loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church, should now be ‘hunted’ and ousted from the country. He shared what could be considered a call for violence on Sunday on his Facebook page, which has since been apparently suspended by the social network. The statements however had been cited by many media outlets prior to the suspension.
“The clergy of the so-called UOC MP (Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), who failed to find national courage, strength and reasons to join the Ukrainian Church are not servants of God, but agents of [Russian security service] FSB and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, which makes them Enemies of Ukraine,” Yarosh declared. He added that he considers Putin, who by many accounts is a practicing Orthodox believer, ‘a satanist.’
An adherent of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which is not part of the Eastern Orthodoxy and sees the Pope as its leader, Yarosh believes the new Ukrainian church will eventually become one with his and be recognized by both the Vatican and Constantinople.
The religious reform in Ukraine is seen by many as President Petro Poroshenko’s reelection campaign. Constantinople promises to declare the newly-created church independent from itself next year, before the election is held in late March. The president was present at the Saturday gathering as a co-chair and addressed crowds of Ukrainians after the decision, declaring the new organization ‘free from Putin’.
On the path to the unification of the schismatics Poroshenko repeatedly stressed that priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will not be persecuted for not joining the new church. But with Poroshenko’s rhetoric being so close to that of Yarosh, there are fears this promise is far from being a certainty.
Yarosh himself should be hunted down for not coming back to the Orthodox church in the fist place! Why are past orthodox members still beholden to the Vatican in this day and age ? Traitors! There is no longer a reason for Ukrainian Greek Catholics to exist. The conditions are long passed. They should all come back to Orthodoxy.
They are the same, same; they believe in the Pope – !!
Who are the same? Orthodox and Greek Catholics? Since when?
Since they believe in the Pope.
No Al. You are mistaken ,no Orthodox believes in the Pope. They don’t believe in his Papal Infallibility for starters!
The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Mother of God, honoured in devotions. The Eastern Orthodox Church shared communion with the Roman Catholic Church until the East–West Schism in AD 1054, triggered by disputes over doctrine, especially the authority of the Pope.
That is all true. In essence,There was only one church till then. Yet Orthodox people have nothing to do wirh Catholicism nowadays and haven’t since then although there had been a kiss and make up of sorts since 1967.
No Orthodox believes in the pope nor his infallibility nor his authority at all. The popes Encyclicals mean nothing to the Orthodox.
Good and thank you for the info.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas Al to you and yours. May Syria be free and rabid American geopolitics be curtailed.
Orthodoxy is the nest of hypocrisy and corruption nowadays, why should a corrupt church wanting to become even more corrupt?
I do not understand what you are trying to say.
Greek Catholics are better than Orthodoxy or the Catholics
Because rothschild and buddies are working very hard, trying to win a game that is already lost.
This remembers me of the neoliberal mentality that everybody else is to blame but the criminal.
As I said: take your medication. Now!
Seems to me ,the sneaky, Psychopathic “HAND” of Bolshevik Jews is at work again, in the area, against Christians
Great victory for Poroshenko !
Great victory in fomenting more war and suffering to Ukrainians? Yes, Poroshenko is good at that.
Yeah, Russia didn’t kill enough Ukrainians, let’s give it another chance
Stop this baw sh$t, Ukrainians kill each other on behalf of Khazarians – it aint funny.
Khazarians are around Putler offering him expensive watches in exchange of huge contracts with the Russian state.
Take your medication. You are hallucinating again. A show staged by porky in desperation with few attending. Noooo, it wasn’t a great show, just a joke.
“Porky” keeps Putler at bay meanwhile. Ukraine is too tough for Russia.
I like your joke hahaha..
Kiev would crush the Muscovites ‘Muscals’
The Ukrainian, (so-called) Greek Catholic Church has always caused trouble in Ukraine with the Orthodox whom they mimic outwardly but are steadfastly and firmly under the Vatican. Their members were outright Nazi sympathisers in the world war against Hitler. Yarosh continues in the same tradition as does his co-Nazi sympathiser Chairman of the Verhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) Andriy Parubiy who is also Greek Catholic.
Being a Nazi regime, the priests will be persecuted and killed until they open the concentration camps.