{"id":50555,"date":"2022-12-10T18:09:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=50555"},"modified":"2022-12-10T18:09:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T16:09:19","slug":"kuleba-says-russian-orthodox-church-betrayed-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=50555","title":{"rendered":"Kuleba says Russian Orthodox Church &#8220;betrayed God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV. UkraineGate.10 .  December  .2022 | War News .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the Russian Orthodox Church had &#8220;betrayed God.&#8221; He said this in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter<strong> <\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Citation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Russian Orthodox Church has betrayed God. Everything they do is against the will of God. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s either morally or politically acceptable to be associated with this institution,&#8221; Kuleba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Kuleba noted that adherents of religion have the right to freedom of religion and to practice their faith at will, he said Ukrainian state would use &#8220;all the legal means&#8221; available to it to suppress without hesitation any religious groups &#8220;who want to destroy Ukraine, statehood.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Kuleba, a number of Orthodox priests and some bishops blessed Russia&#8217;s military efforts, covered spies and distributed materials favorable to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In times of war, when a nation is fighting for its survival, it is unacceptable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Supplement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the end of November, the SSU has been conducting searches in the dioceses of the UOC-MP in Ukraine. One of the first inspections took place in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In early December, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came into force the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to ban religious organizations influenced by Russia in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NSDC instructed the government to submit to the Verkhovna Rada a bill banning religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in Russia, and the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience \u2013 to ensure a religious examination of the charter on the management of the UOC for communication with the Moscow Patriarchate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Ukrgate <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV. UkraineGate.10 . December .2022 | War News . \u00a0Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the Russian Orthodox Church had &#8220;betrayed God.&#8221; He said this in an interview with the National Catholic Reporter . Citation &#8220;The Russian Orthodox Church has betrayed God. Everything they do is against the will of God. 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