The Deputy head of the DECR of the UOC Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich
We want to make a Ministry of the Orthodox faith, and we defend the right of the owl to be the Church, said the speaker of the UOC.
The Church now want to use it for political and geopolitical purposes, and we are against it. This was stated by Deputy head of the DECR of the UOC Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich, the TV channel “NewsOne”.
“Speaking in the Verkhovna Rada, the President said that a United national Church is a matter of geopolitics. This immediately alerted us. The Church is the Church issues and questions of geopolitics is geopolitics,” – said father Nikolai.
According to him, the Church now want to use it for political and geopolitical purposes, and we are against it.
“We want to make Church “of this world”: let’s you anti-Russian or anti-American. But the Church can not be either anti-Russian or anti-American. We want to involve in these things, and we are now defending their right to be the Church to maintain the calling of the Church, the nature of the Church. And we want to make a Ministry of the Orthodox faith”, – he stressed.
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