“Honorable acting spiritual mentor” ptsu Filaret Denisenko, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko
Petro Poroshenko urged the supporters of the PCU to carry out explanatory work to attract believers of the canonical Church.
Transition believers in “the Orthodox Church of Ukraine” will not stop, but to prevent errors is very important to believers outreach, has transferred words of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko UNIAN.
The President urged the supporters of the DNC to avoid violence.
“I want to warn the individual radicals that tomorrow is going to select temples. You can’t do that. You temples are selected not from Moscow, but from a community. We have to work with the community. It is necessary to convince and explain: if you already have a canonical Ukrainian Church, why do you wander somewhere, go to us,” said Poroshenko at the meeting with the faculty and students of the universities of Ternopil.
According to the President, that the Kremlin is interested in a religious war and bloodshed.
“Those who wanted to attract “aunts” and grandmothers in red handkerchiefs, – they failed. Let the Ukrainians themselves to choose the way to God, and they’ll do it,” – concluded his speech Poroshenko.
Earlier, Poroshenko said that on the news Vatican website published information on the establishment of the PCU, although the official website of this publication was not.