The Zelensky government in Ukraine with the backing of Ukrainian fascists is attempting to expel two hundred umonks from the famous Kiev Caves Lavra. This policy has been condemned by Pope Francis and the World Council of Churches. Guess who is not condemning this blatant violation of human rights and religious freedom?
Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop Elpidophoros, and the Churches of Greece and Cyprus. The Greek speaking Churches have been paralyzed since the Ecumenical Patriarch started all this in 2018 by recognizing the fake Church in Ukraine. The silence of Greek Orthodoxy to this brutal repression is shameful and deplorable.
The Ukrainian government is fascist to the core. The war itself is generally immoral as sympathy should be for the people on both sides who are suffering. It should not be forgotten that Ukraine has not only been repressing the canonical Church, it has violated the rights of the Russian minority.
The war needs to end and Zelinsky needs to be resign in favor of a democratic government. His Allie’s have been Neo Nazis. The fanatics who have been seizing Churches are not devout and have no intention of worshipping in them. The Ukrainian Church is under attack merely for being under the Moscow Patriarchate.
In America, groups like the Ku klux klan adopted an anti Roman Catholic position because Catholics looked to the Pope of Rome for spiritual leadership. The Monks of the Lavra are the victims of bigots and fascists such as them.
It is a pity that Orthodox Greeks are standing on the sidelines with indifference.