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Hundreds of Russian Orthodox clergy urge to ‘stop the war’ in Ukraine
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Greater than 280 Russian Orthodox clergy signed an open letter urging for an finish to the “fratricidal conflict” in Ukraine.
“We mourn the ordeal to which our brothers and sisters in Ukraine have been undeservedly subjected,” the letter learn, based on a translation in The Christian Submit.
“The Final Judgment awaits each particular person,” continued the letter, which has garnered the signatures of 284 Russian Orthodox clergymen, archpriests and deacons, as of Sunday.
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Morning fog surrounds the thousand-year-old Monastery of the Caves, also called Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of many holiest websites of Japanese Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018.
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“No earthly authority, no medical doctors, no guards will shield from this judgment. Involved concerning the salvation of each one that considers himself a baby of the Russian Orthodox Church, we don’t need him to seem at this judgment, bearing the heavy burden of mom’s curses,” they continued.
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“We remind you that the Blood of Christ, shed by the Savior for the lifetime of the world, will probably be acquired within the sacrament of Communion by these individuals who give murderous orders, not into life, however into everlasting torment.”
The clergy additional lamented the divisions the continued battle has torn open, writing, “It saddens us to think about the gulf that our kids and grandchildren in Russia and Ukraine must bridge in an effort to start to be associates once more, to respect and love one another.”
“Cease the conflict,” the letter concluded.
Metropolitan Epiphanius, newly elected head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, conducts a service throughout his enthronement within the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019.
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The U.S. Fee on Worldwide Spiritual Freedom (USCIRF) has expressed deep concern for the security of non secular minorities in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion, with USCIRF Chair Nadine Maenza telling Fox Information Digital final week that the secular battle will seemingly have non secular penalties.
“Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion is destroying lives, separating households and devastating communities throughout Ukraine,” Maenza stated. “As this horrific tragedy unfolds, there’s vital potential for non secular violence and extreme violations of non secular freedom related to Russia’s ongoing invasion and occupation of Ukraine.”
A 2018 survey discovered that about 67.3% of Ukraine’s inhabitants identifies as some kind of Orthodox Christianity, with 28.7% a part of the Kyiv-based Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), 23.4% merely “Orthodox,” and 12.8% UOC-MP.
Fox Information Digital’s Timothy Nerozzi and Tyler O’Neil contributed reporting.