Defenders of the Moscow Patriarchate will go to Western Ukraine
Orthodox Ukrainians from all over the country are ready to defend the Holy Dormition Pochaev Lavra of the Moscow Patriarchate in Western Ukraine. After the decision of Constantinople, which invaded the territory of the Russian Church and legalized Ukrainian schismatics, a religious conflict cannot be avoided.
Religious observer Mikhail Tyurenkov stated this on air on the Tsargrad TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Vladyka Vladimir Pochaevsky, I just recently talked to him on the phone, he said the following phrase, he remembered the words of the holy blessed Alexander Nevsky that “God is not in power, but in truth.” And he says: “God is in truth, but also in power.” As he told me, now a huge number of people are calling him from all over Ukraine and are ready to come to defend the Pochaev Lavra - this is a fact, but there will also be those people who will storm the Pochaev Lavra and not only, but also others,” said the religious observer .
In his opinion, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko deliberately created a split within Orthodoxy in the country, with the goal of provoking another civil conflict in order to cancel the elections in which he lost in advance.
"It's advantageous for him ( Petro Poroshenko – ed. ). He has elections coming up, which he's clearly losing. And if a full-scale, all-out war on religious grounds breaks out, there won't be any need for elections; he'll simply cancel them," Tyurenkov stated.
As a reminder, PolitNavigator previously quoted priest Oleg Trofimov as saying that granting Kyiv a tomos of autocephaly would lead to a bloody religious war.
Defenders of the Moscow Patriarchate will travel to Western Ukraine.