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Head of Eastern Orthodoxy condemns Putin, Russian invasion of Ukraine
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The worldwide head of Jap Orthodoxy provided a uncommon public criticism when he condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying “the entire world is towards Russia.”
Throughout an interview with CNN TÜRK, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople stated he maintained “an excellent relationship” with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy whereas he described how Russia’s latest army actions have strained the nation’s relationship with the remainder of the world.
“We’re coming into a brand new period of Chilly Struggle,” stated Patriarch Bartholomew, based on a report. “The gap between Russia and never solely Ukraine however the entire Western world, Russia and the Western world is getting greater. It signifies that we’re coming into a brand new Chilly Struggle interval.”
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“Anybody who thinks proper and acts proper doesn’t need this case, this new Chilly Struggle interval. As a non secular establishment, our Patriarchate, has all the time been in favor of peace and unity, and we proceed to take action. Now we have particularly strengthened our prayers nowadays,” he added.
Present archbishop of Constantinople and ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople serves the service on the principal Jap Orthodox St. George’s Cathedral in Istanbul, Turkey, November 30, 2020. (Picture by Sergii Kharchenko/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photographs)
The patriarch of Constantinople serves as the primary amongst equals of the decentralized Jap Orthodox communion. He presides over any council of Orthodox primates, and he serves as a spokesperson for the Orthodox communion.
When Ukraine gained its independence from the previous Soviet Union, the Ecumenical Patriarch stated the Orthodox church additionally granted the nation its personal unbiased Orthodox Church. In 2019, a Ukrainian Orthodox Church primarily based in Kyiv formally separated from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that appears to Moscow for management. Each church buildings, nonetheless, have garnered criticism from Russia’s Orthodox Church.
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The top of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has voiced assist for Putin and even went so far as to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a struggle towards sinful residing and in response to the “extermination” of Donbas separatists.
“Now we have entered right into a wrestle that has not a bodily, however a metaphysical significance,” Kirill stated throughout a church sermon on Sunday, earlier than the beginning of Lent.
FILE – Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill delivers the Christmas Liturgy within the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (AP Picture/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
He additionally stated the Donbas residents are struggling for his or her “basic rejection of the so-called values which might be provided at the moment by those that declare world energy.”
The continued wrestle, then, was a “check for the loyalty” of those that peddle their very own concepts of freedom and “extra consumption.”
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The controversial feedback have cut up Ukrainian Orthodoxy as some are nonetheless loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church, regardless of Putin’s militaristic invasion.
FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulates Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill on the thirteenth anniversary of his enthronement in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Picture by way of AP)
A number of bishops from Ukraine’s unbiased church have despatched a letter important of Kirill’s feedback.
“And the reason being apparent. The treacherous open invasion of Ukraine is a large mistake of Russia,” wrote Rev. Mykola Danilevich, who additionally famous that “a lot of our monks have stopped commemorating the Moscow Patriarch for worship companies.”
“Individuals didn’t hear from the patriarch a transparent evaluation of this struggle and his name to cease this insanity,” Danilevich added.
A 2018 survey discovered that about 67.3% of Ukraine’s inhabitants identifies as one or one other strand of Orthodox Christianity, with 28.7% a part of the Kyiv-based Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), 23.4% merely “Orthodox,” and 12.8% Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.
Fox Information’ Tyler O’Neil and The Related Press contributed to this report.
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- One person was killed after a portion of the canopy at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport’s departure terminal collapsed on Friday.
- The collapse occurred due to monsoon rains that lashed the Indian capital, officials say.
- Six others were injured during the collapse.
A portion of a canopy at a departure terminal at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport in India collapsed Friday as monsoon rains lashed the Indian capital, killing one person and injuring six others, officials said.
All flight departures from Terminal 1 were temporarily suspended as rescuers cleared the debris to rescue anyone trapped there, the airport authority said.
Terminal 1 is used for domestic operations at New Delhi’s main airport.
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The fire services control room said the injured were taken to a hospital.
A crew inspects the damage to a part of a departure terminal canopy at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport that collapsed in heavy pre-monsoon rains in New Delhi, India, on June 28, 2024. (AP Photo)
“Due to heavy rain since early this morning, a portion of the canopy of the old departure forecourt” collapsed at around 5 a.m., an airport authority statement said.
In addition to the roof, some support beams also collapsed, damaging cars in the pickup and drop-off area at the terminal, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
One of the six injured people was rescued from a car on which an iron beam had fallen, PTI said.
Anees Khan, a taxi driver, said he was sleeping in his car. “Around 5:30 in the morning there was a very loud lightning sound. When I got out, I saw that the roof had collapsed and there were around eight to 10 cars under it.”
Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu visited the airport and said boarding operations at the damaged terminal were being shifted to two other terminals.
He told reporters that a thorough inspection of the damaged structure was being carried out.
An IndiGo airline official said passengers inside the terminal had already boarded their flights and those booked on flights later in the day would be offered alternatives.
Friday’s rain was the first big shower of the monsoon season in New Delhi, the India Meteorological Department said. It flooded New Delhi streets, causing traffic snarls. The monsoon season lasts until the end of September.
According to the department, as much as 9 inches of rain fell in New Delhi in the past 24 hours, nearly three times the amount the city usually receives in the entire month of June. The intense rain follows a punishing heatwave that claimed at least 100 lives across India, including in New Delhi.
India is among the most vulnerable regions in the world to the effects of climate change. A report by the Reserve Bank of India earlier this year found it could cost more than $1 trillion by 2030 for the country to adapt to the changes. Climate experts say monsoon rains have become more erratic, resulting in extreme rainfall events that cause landslides and flooding.
According to the Brussels-based NGO ILGA-Europe, Norway this year ranks the 8th best state in Europe for the LGBTQ community.
Revellers took to the streets of central Oslo this weekend to celebrate the city’s annual pride parade as June’s Pride Month draws to a close.
The two-hour march ended on Saturday at the so-called Pride Park, in the central Sofienbergparken.
Oslo Pride is Norway’s largest celebration of love and diversity and focusses on equal rights and human dignity.
It’s created by around 80 year-round volunteers with around 300 extra getting involved during the nine-day festival.
According to the Brussels-based NGO ILGA-Europe, Norway this year ranks the 8th best state in Europe for the LGBTQ community. The index takes into account the legal, political and social environment for LGBTQ people in each country in Europe.
However during 2022’s festival, a homophobic gunman opened fire in Oslo’s nightlife district, killing two people and wounding 20 others.
Heavy police presence at Pride parade in Greece
Meanwhile, in Greece, around 15,000 people attended the annual EuroPride parade on Saturday, police said, in support of the LGBTQ+ community in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki but police had to come out in large numbers to keep the parade safe.
“This participation from across Europe sends a message,” parade participant Michalis Filippidis told reporters. “It is very, very good. We are all united like a fist and, despite many things happening, we are all here to fight for our rights.”
There was a heavy police presence to prevent demonstrations against the parade. In the end, police said, 15 people were detained for shouting obscenities at parade participants and, in one case, trying to throw eggs at them.
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