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What’s Really Behind The State Department’s Meddling In Ukraine?
This article is republished with the author’s permission. Previously published by Chronicles
Ukraine MP reports that Ukrainian SBU is interrogating priests
TASS News Agency reported on December 3rd that the Ukrainian SBU (the SBU, analogous to the FSB in Russia) is presently questioning about twenty priests from two eparchies of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
This report comes from the leader of the opposition party in Ukraine’s own Verkhovna Rada (Parliament), a man by the name of Vadim Novinsky. (emphasis added):
Fake Ukrainian Church delayed as Ecumenical Patriarch’s move is unpopular
When Patriarch Bartholomew lifted the anathemas on Filaret Denisenko and Makary and pledged his efforts to create an autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Church in Ukraine, he boldly proclaimed that everyone would go along with his decision.