Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to revoke Ukrainian citizenship from 13 priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) “satanism.”
“And this happens on Orthodox Christmas! This is pure Satanism,” she wrote on her Telegram channel on Saturday, commenting on information about the relevant decree of the Ukrainian leader.
On Saturday, Ukrainian news agency Levy Bereg reported citing imgs that Zelensky signed a decree stripping 13 priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of their Ukrainian citizenship.
On December 1, 2022, Zelensky issued a decree on the adoption of a resolution of the National Security and Defense Council on certain aspects of the activities of religious organizations in Ukraine and the implementation of personal special financial and other restrictive measures (sanctions), which are essentially aimed at prohibiting of Orthodox churches, notes Tass.
More specifically, he ordered that a bill for the ban be submitted to parliament “religious organizations connected to centers of influence in the Russian Federation”strengthening “measures to identify and counter subversive activities of Russian special services in the religious sphere of Ukraine” and checking the Charter governing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for signs of ecclesiastical and canonical ties to the Moscow Patriarchate.
Source: News Beast
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