Zaporozhye, October 14 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – In Zaporozhye, priests of the UOC-MP were prohibited from holding a liturgy and prayer service scheduled for October 12 in the Intercession Church in Khortytsia.
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“This is already a good tradition, but this year we received a letter from the reserve that they are asking us not to allow us to hold a service, due to the fact that a stage will be installed (for the festival “Porkova on Khortitsa” - editor’s note), It will be noisy and it will be inconvenient for pilgrims to pray. But last year it was convenient, but this year it was inconvenient. But we were not invited to other events at all. We did not receive an invitation from the secular authorities,” said Archbishop Luka of Zaporozhye and Melitopol.
In his address, the archbishop said that “I believe that to neglect the largest Orthodox denomination in our region on the day of an Orthodox holiday is criminal and insane.”
“But if the Lord wants to punish a person, he deprives him of his mind. I think the testimony of those officials who are responsible for these events, seemingly smart people, are not in special departments, but by their actions they testify to their insanity,” the Reporter publication quotes Vladyka.
As PolitNavigator reported, earlier the UOC-KP announced possible provocations on October 14.