Novynskyi: The authorities are mobilizing priests in order to destroy the UOC
Military enlistment office operations. Photo: sd.ua
Protodeacon Vadym Novynskyi of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church stated that the Ministry of Defense has chosen a policy of mobilizing priests with a view to destroying the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He made this claim in an interview with blogger Oleksandr Shelest.
"They’re even doing it through forced mobilization of priests, because you know that in the mobilization department of the Ministry of Defense there is now a policy of sending all priests of our canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the front," Fr. Vadym said.
According to him, the authorities want to “decapitate” the UOC so that there would be no clergy left to serve in the churches.
"Every day in thousands of UOC churches the Divine Liturgy is served. Every single day. And of course, all of this happens as a defiance of the devil. They want to extinguish this lamp of the Divine Liturgy, to silence it – even that," the protodeacon emphasized.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that, according to Novynskyi, Zelensky wants to ensure “spiritual independence” from Christ.
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