Reporter’s notebook: Ukrainian spiritual leader says Kremlin extension of Russian Orthodox church
As President Donald Trump’s administration works for the diplomatic apocalypse of the Ukrainian war, leaders of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU) warned that Vladimir Putin’s Russia believes it is actually a confrontation with the West. Holy War.”
The OCU delegation recently held in the Washington, D.C. International Religious Freedom Summit in the United States, led by his Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphany, Kyiv and all Ukraine.
His translation with Fox News talked about the spiritual war between Russia and Ukraine, which played a major role in the reason why the battle began and continued to escalate.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attended Easter Orthodox service in Moscow on April 16, 2023. (Contributor/Getty Image)
His outstanding metropolis, Yevstratiy [the] The evil Western Godless. Russia brings light and truth to Ukraine. ”
Yevstratiy and other church observers, such as the Catholic intellectual George Weigel, accused the Russian Orthodox church of being nothing more than a force of the Kremlin, wearing religious costumes but for Putin’s bid.
Weger wrote in the magazine that Weger pointed out: “…Ukraine held and maintained strong resistance, denying Russia’s rapid victory expected in February 2022 in February 2022, and the reason for the war began. Adopt a new color: War is now a war: now a war. Defend Christian civilization.”
Yevstratiy recalls on Lighthouse Faith Podcast that when the war began, the patriarch of Moscow, Kirill, dealing with Russian soldiers, fighting Ukraine, and if they die in the battle, they will go to heaven immediately… All sins are forgiven . Even outsiders look at the complexity of Orthodox Christianity, it sounds more like a “political jihad” than a gospel.
In 2019, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine was granted the independence of the Russian Orthodox Church by the Ephesian Patriarch of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). It caused a stir in Moscow. Kirill and Putin refused to recognize the authority of patriarch Bartholomew.
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Metropolitan Epiphanius held a worship ceremony and St Andrew’s Church in Bucha, the Ministry of Public Affairs of Kiev, Ukraine on August 25, 2024. (Andrii Nesterenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Yevstratiy also revealed a more terrifying version of the Ukrainian war. He said Putin’s ultimate goal was not just the unification of the Soviet Union or the defense of Christian civilization. It’s actually the end of the world. He focused on the third and last Rome held in Moscow. This means that Christianity, Catholics and Protestants are marked as pagans and pagans.
Describing the inner workings of the Orthodox church seems a bit like “inside baseball.” But these are the oldest Christian churches. They came from five ancient churches led by the apostles who made Jesus know.
The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill, held Easter service in Moscow’s Cathedral on Saturday, April 23. (Sergei Vlasov, Russian Orthodox Church broadcasts through AP)
The Apostle Andrew walked east in Constantinople. Mark to Alexander (Egypt); Peter got Antioch (Rome); James went to Jerusalem, Barnabas to Cyprus. Christianity is spread all over the world from these people and the touring apostle Paul. Therefore, this conflict between Russia and Ukraine has deep spiritual roots. Putin knows.
Yestratiy and Epiphany attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. and heard President Trump announce his willingness to be a peacemaker.
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“We pray that we ask the Almighty God to bless this very good and Christian desire.”
Added: “God may bless Ukraine. May God bless the United States.”
The full interview is on Lauren Green’s Beacon Faith Podcast, available on Apple, Spotify and here.
