Yurash on the canonical Church: The parade of Kremlin agents begins

Head of the Department for Religious Affairs and Nationalities under the Ministry of Culture Andrei Yurash

"Agents of the Moscow Patriarchate" oppose the recognition of the OCU not only in Ukraine but also in the world, complained Andrei Yurash, Head of the Department for Religions and Nationalities of the Ministry of Culture.

“Not only in the Ukrainian church field but also in the world one, the parade of all direct and informal agents of the Moscow Patriarchate, who have now gone on the final stand against the tendency to accept the realities in Ukraine, began,” the “1Kozak” TV channel cites the official.

According to Yurash, the UOC attempts to protect the rights of its believers are nothing but active opposition to objective tendencies.

“The Church is driving itself into the plane of unrealistic awareness, replacing real slogans and a real platform with certain clichés that do not find any understanding of the flock itself,” the official said.

The religious scholar from the Ministry of Culture considers the attitude of the Local Orthodox Churches to the creation of the OCU “the last barricades of the Moscow Patriarchate”, which restrain the recognition process of the OCU.

“We see what discussions are now in the Georgian Church, in the Bulgarian Church, in the Polish Church, and what statements are sometimes provoked in the Greek Church,” said Yurash.

He is also convinced that representatives of the authorities and territorial communities are open to dialogue with the UOC during the seizures of churches and know how to conduct this dialogue "with depth and responsibility".

You can deceive many people but not those who are in the picture, the publicist Sergei Komarov commented on the official’s statements.

“It would not be an exaggeration to say that the head of the Department for Religions and Nationalities under the Ministry of Culture consistently advocated any opponents of the UOC and state religious policy even in the most blatant cases, such as beating in Katerinovka,” Komarov noted.

The publicist noted that human tears are behind the deception of Yurash.

“People, ordinary villagers are deprived of temples, priests are deprived of their place of service. This is a pretty cynical deception. You declare millions of people some kind of defected ones, outcasts, just because they want to go to another Church, not the one you go to,” concluded Komarov.

Earlier, the head of the Department for Religious Affairs and Nationalities under the Ministry of Culture explained to Ukrainians how they should “correctly” go under the jurisdiction of the OCU, stating that “each religious organization decides its own fate”.

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