Historically, Ukraine has been dominated religiously by the Russian Orthodox Church. As the Ukrainian government tries to push the independence of their own Ukrainian Orthodox Church, however, the existing Russian church is finding itself a target for its Russianness.
On Monday, Ukrainian police and national troops raided three different Russian Orthodox Churches in the country’s north, along with the homes of the priests running those churches. They are accused of having declared their continued allegiance to the church leadership in Moscow instead of aligning with the new Ukrainian alternative.
“They were ordered to seize everything to do with our church,” noted one official from one of the raided churches. The Ukrainian government says they are suspected of violating a law on “equality of religious belief,” but that there have been no arrests so far.
In the past, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was treated as a constituent part of the Russian Orthodox Church, headed by the Moscow Patriarch. There had been religious disputes over whether the Moscow Patriarch had jurisdiction over the territory of the historical Kiev Patriarch, which the overall Orthodox head, in Constantinople, has said they do not. In October, there was a decision to revoke Moscow’s jurisdiction at an Ecumenial level, though this did not include recognizing Kiev’s claimed Patriarch.
As a practical matter, the Ukraine Orthodox Church is recognized as an independent, full-fledged church equal to the Russian version in theory. Without the recognition of a Kiev Patriarch, however, there are substantial questions about the practicality of this independence.
Another provocation from Porky Poroshenko, the US puppet potentate
Will the Ukrainian fascists go after the synagogues next, for allegiance to the foreign entity called Israel? How about going after Catholic churches for allegiance to the Vatican? nope, just Russians.
Don’t be too sure… at the grassroots the racist militias seem to indoctrinate a message that is essentially “we’re good and human, Russians and everyone else aren’t,” so go ahead and persecute or shoot them. The militia camps may be partially funded by the USA, but the message and implications of elitist hatred are out-of-control.
Probably not
They are more likely to fly Israeli flags in solidarity
With the country that helped arm them
The Banderists have actually launched attacks on Jews, Roma and queer people as well as Russians. Russians are their favorite target but they hate all the same people as their Nazi ancestors. As a queer person, I support the separatists, even if they don’t always support me. Russians cleared out the last lot of Nazi scumbags, it’s time to do it again.
I am not surprised to learn that there is a Russian Jesus and a Ukrainian Jesus who are trying to kill one another.
Nothing to do with Jesus really
It’s past time for the US to cut all funding that ends up in the fascist hate-militias hands, in other words STOP MEDDLING IN UKRAINE.
We need an enemy like Russia
To justify trillion dollar weapons programs
No, we don’t, we need Russia as an ally. We already have an enemy – Zionist Israel. Not only has it interfered in our elections, it has helped the Deep State murder JFK, RFK, MLK and JFK Jr. It has also sent jets and gunboats to attack the USS liberty during the Six Day War with its Arab neighbors (34 crewmen were killed, another 171 injured). The Zionist Entity also helped the Deep State destroy the Twin Towers and damage the Pentagon on 9/11/01. Close to 3,000 people perished.
Russia has never made an enemy of the US as the USSR did. The two are total opposites .. the USSR was an atheist Bolshevik entity, while Putin’s Russia is an Orthodox Christian entity.
In fact, we don’t belong in Syria, we were never invited. The only countries the Syrian gov’t of Bashar Assad invited are Russia and Iran, as well as Hezbollah. The US, Turkey and the UK/NATO were never invited; yet, we all went in anyway. The US is the only country with 820 bases worldwide, and it’s long time we close them down and bring all the troops home.
The one bright factor is the announced withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan, after 17 years of futility. It’s long time they admitted defeat, but at least it’s better late than never. By now, the troop level had been greatly reduced from over 150,000 under Obama to under 10,000 under Trump.
Ukraine under Porky Poroshenko is nothing more than a basket case .. no wonder his popularity’s at a low 36%, and with his Martial Law declaration, it will be plummeting down to less than 10%. In the Donbass region, it’s a big fat ZERO. His stunt near the Kerch Strait cost him 3 small ships and 72 sailors .. and those sailors are all charged with violating Russian territorial waters and could very well spend 6 years in prison.
You misunderstand who I meant by we.
You and I are not the we to whom I refer.
You and I are a Palestinian
Or some iteration of them
Any moment now, we should see headlines of Nikki Haley denouncing this attack on religious liberty.
This has all the makings of another American sponsored genocide.