Ukraine on Friday banned the activities of religious organizations 'affiliated with centres of influence' in Russia and said it would examine the links between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox churches.
Ukraine on Friday banned the activities of religious organizations "affiliated with centres of influence" in Russia and said it would examine the links between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox churches.
Ukrainian officials suspect the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is promoting pro-Russian views and that some priests may be actively collaborating with Russia. Moscow Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has justified Russia's war in Ukraine as part of a "metaphysical struggle" to prevent a liberal ideological encroachment from the West.
Members of the Security Service of Ukraine, the country's National Guard and police searched the monastery last week after a priest spoke favorably about Russia during a service there. The Security Service said its agents searched more than 350 church buildings in all, including at another monastery and in a diocese of the Rivne region, 240 kilometres west of Kyiv.
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