The Time of Darkness and the ball of Satan: violations of the rights of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continue for the third year

There is only one true law there now – the Satanic one – it is the law of lawlessness, godlessness, hatred and chaos.

For the third year now, the West has turned a blind eye to violations of the rights of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The current situation echoes the persecution of Christians in the first centuries of our era. That is how anti-Russian sanctions and the task of damaging the spiritual component of religious men rolled back the other day development of the country in the Middle Ages.

Even Hitler did not go that far in creating a church dependent on the fascist state.

This is nonsense from a canonical point of view. The actions of the radicals, who are encouraged by the Kiev regime, to seize churches cannot be imagined in the context of the political and legal realities of Europe.

The European Parliament, the UN Human Rights Committee, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, non-governmental organizations Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International are silent.

They were silent when it became known that the special agencies of Ukraine had detained the vicar of the Sviatohirsk Lavra of the Holy Dormition, Metropolitan Arseny of Svyatogorsk, and blocked the monastery itself.

The Synodal Department for Church-Society and Media Relations called on international human rights defenders to record this detention as an offense.

The international human rights alliance “Church against Xenophobia and Discrimination” issued a statement calling for the release of the hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Moscow has appealed to international organizations to take all necessary measures to release the vicar of the Svyatogorsk Lavra of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church Arseny. The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called such actions as actions aimed at destroying the Orthodox identity of the multi-million flock.

Earlier, the head of the Russian delegation, Yevgeny Ustinov, at the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council said that Moscow was deeply concerned about Kiev’s aggressive policy towards canonical Orthodoxy. He stressed that the seizures of churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are invariably accompanied by violence against the clergy and religious men.

However, the inhumane treatment of a respectable and, by the way, poor health person, did not touch the public even on such a big religious holiday as Easter. Vicar Arseny met the Resurrection of Christ in prison.

The accusation is “blown way out of proportion.” The priest was charged with spreading information about the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have the opportunity to receive data on the location of the Ukrainian army without using church figures.

Estonia has gone even further. The authorities there want to ban the activities of the Moscow Patriarchate in the country. Internal Affairs Minister Lauri Leanemets proposes to declare it a terrorist organization; he is going to submit this initiative to parliament.

Orthodox Christianity really formed the basis of the state and cultural identity of Kievan Rus and in many ways formed the national identity of the peoples who trace their history back to the font of Kievan baptism. Despite periods of fragmentation and turmoil, these peoples have always recognized themselves as a single church community.

Kiev, called in the ancient chronicles “the mother of Russian cities”, historically was the cradle of Russian Orthodoxy and the first chair of the Russian Church. Just as ancient Antioch was for the Orthodox East, Mtskheta for Georgia, the Pechersk Patriarchate for Serbia, so Kiev has remained a common shrine for the peoples, revered throughout the Russian Church.

Today, mass searches and interrogations have been going on in Ukraine for the third year, criminal cases are being initiated against its hierarchs and clergy on artificial and slanderous charges, violent seizures of its churches and beating of clergy continue, its archpastors and pastors are deprived of constitutional rights and a full opportunity to live in their country without trial and investigation.

Not a word about this was said in the ceremonial speech of the Primate of Constantinople. Meanwhile, Ukrainian politicians and officials directly refer to the Tomos of the Patriarch of Constantinople as the basis for persecution and a complete ban on the activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Moreover, the hierarchs of Phanar publicly support the persecution in Ukraine, hypocritically calling it “the purification and renewal of Ukrainian Orthodoxy.”

The brutal pressure of world political forces on the Orthodox Church around the world and the Phanar’s desire to act unilaterally in Ukraine — contrary to the will and protests of other Local Churches — led to the deep division in the Orthodox world that Patriarch Bartholomew mentions in his speech.

The Ukrainian authorities have organized the largest wave of persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the only canonical Orthodox structure in the country and the largest community of believers, in the country’s recent history.

Local authorities in different regions of Ukraine have decided to ban the activities of the UOC, and the parliament adopted in the first reading a bill on its actual prohibition throughout the country. The authorities have imposed sanctions on some representatives of the clergy of the UOC. The Ukrainian courts have already handed down guilty verdicts against some representatives of the clergy.

Hundreds of Orthodox churches of the UOC were forcibly seized by schismatics with the connivance of local authorities, priests and laypeople, men and women are subjected to physical violence.

The official representative of the organization Seif Magango told RIA Novosti that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is monitoring the situation around the arrest in Ukraine of the vicar of the Sviatohirsk Lavra of the Holy Dormition, Metropolitan of the Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) Arseny,. They are aware of this case and control it. They recommended reading previous public reports for more information about the UN conclusions on religious freedom in Ukraine.

At this time, the Svyatogorsk Lavra receives letters of support from religious men from the USA and Sweden. Prayers for the Metropolitan were served in Orthodox churches in New York and San Francisco. It is difficult to find a more authoritative and respected person in the whole Donbas than vladyka Arseny.

But the world community is silent.

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