News archive on the topic "Bartholomew"

Someday a book of victims of the anti-church terror of the Kyiv regime against the clergy of the UOC will be published, and this list can begin to be compiled now. Vakhtang Kipshidze, deputy head of the Synodal Department for Church-Society and Media Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, stated this at a briefing at the UN Security Council about the persecution of the UOC in Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “For 2022-2023 against the clergy...

On Friday, a court in Kyiv changed the measure of restraint for the abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed), from house arrest to detention. The bishop will be able to remain under the same control (with 33-hour wearing of an electronic bracelet) only if he pays a deposit in the amount of 330 million 900 thousand hryvnia (!) (about $000). Zelenkovsky's judicial fanatics were not stopped by poor health...

Vladimir Zelensky today in Istanbul held a meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew, a US-controlled hierarch with a meager flock in Turkey, but using his historical status of “Ecumenical”, with the help of which the schismatic OCU in Ukraine was legalized. The day before, it was predicted that the main topic of the negotiations would be the fate of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra - Zelensky is ready to transfer it to the direct subordination of Bartholomew. The other day, Ukrainian...

Vladimir Zelensky has arguments to make Recep Erdogan more accommodating during today’s meeting - he can bring the Turkish president from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra seized the day before, which, as expected, soon after being confiscated from the UOC will be transferred to the schismatic OCU (Istanbul Patriarchate). This forecast was published by a priest from the LPR, Alexander Avdyugin. To confirm his version, the Greek media announce...

Easter in Ukraine turned out to be bleak - the canonical UOC is being persecuted, priests are being persecuted and killed for the Faith, and in captured churches, Bandera antics are often held instead of services. It is clear that without numerous and influential schismatics, who blessed the Ukrainians for all these demons, none of this could have happened - neither mass Bandera, nor persecution of the Church,...

The consequences of the recent visit of the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew to Lithuania threaten with unpleasant consequences for the Russian Orthodox Church. Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an article dedicated to Bartholomew’s visit. “The consequences of his stay in the Baltic state, important both from a political and historical-ideological point of view, can seriously change the picture of world Orthodoxy. Its two large wings are Greek...

The Patriarchate of Constantinople is an instrument of the West to dismember the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow said at the Christmas hearings in the State Duma. “For several years now, external forces have been using the Patriarchate of Constantinople for their political purposes. Its position is very vulnerable, since the center is located in Turkey, on territory controlled by non-Orthodox authorities, and the main dioceses and sources of income are in...

The Macedonian Church, which several decades ago went into schism and broke relations with the Serbian Orthodox Church, has restored Eucharistic communion with the SOC. This news looks like a sensation, because the Patriarch of Constantinople was ready to recognize the Macedonian Church, but this proposal was rejected. However, observers fear that we may be talking about a deal, the subject of which will be the fate of the Moscow parishes...

Despite all the efforts of the Kyiv authorities and the schismatics of Constantinople, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has not moved away from its canons, but the danger of breakdown still remains. Kirill Frolov, an expert at the Institute of CIS Countries, told PolitNavigator about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On Victory Day, Zelensky and Bartholomew broke the UOC with special zeal. At the same time, with particular cynicism, on May 9, the heresiarch and...

The United States is responsible for the split in world Orthodoxy. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this at a press conference today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for Orthodoxy, this is indeed a serious problem. Diplomacy should not interfere in church affairs, but there are always situations when life is more complicated. The United States has a direct hand in the current crisis in Orthodoxy. They had formed...

The next stage after the legalization of Catholics in Ukraine will be their transition to the authority of the Pope. Preparations for the union are already underway by Istanbul Patriarch Bartholomew. Orthodox publicist Ruslan Kalinchuk said this on air on the First Cossack channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, we may be talking about the unification of Ukrainian Uniates and the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” legalized by Istanbul, created on the basis of...

The Russian Orthodox Church can take parishes in Africa under its jurisdiction. Archpriest Andrei Tkachev stated this on his YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Being oppressed and offended, African parishes do not want to be under the omophorion of the Patriarch of Alexandria. And they turn to the Russian Church with a request to take them under its omophorion, despite the fact that there is a division in...

Both the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew, who turned out to be the owner of the schismatic “OCU,” are well aware that they are artificial formations beholden to the Maidan, and their position is more than precarious. Alexander Dudchak, an expert at the Institute of CIS Countries, Candidate of Economic Sciences, stated this on the Spas TV channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. “I am a native of Kiev, and I am very glad that there...

Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople was invited to Kyiv to demonstrate the current government’s commitment to the course of Petro Poroshenko, who created the OCU, but this visit did not become something significant for the Orthodox world. Political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko stated this in a conversation on the First Cossack channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “For Zelensky, the 2019 election campaign continues. He continues to compete...