Ukrainian Orthodoxy

Submitted by Nadia Bazuk…
In spring, Ukraine witnessed an event that will surely be written down in the country’s history – the presidential elections were won by Volodymyr Zelensky, a showman who had never been involved in politics before. And as Zelensky’s victory is astonishing so Petro Poroshenko’s defeat is unexpected. It delivered a hard blow not only at his reputation as politician but also at his ego.

The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church had some choice words recently for the nationalistic agitators who are driving deep divisions into suffering Ukraine.
The suffering caused by Ukrainian politicians, terrorists, and schismatics is not confined simply to the Slavic nation, but rather the perpetrators are enemies “also of all Orthodox Slavic peoples and the entire Orthodox world,” His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia resolutely declared at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral on Wednesday.