ROCOR hierarch urges prayer for persecuted UOC brothers and sisters

Metropolitan Nikolay of Eastern America and New York. Photo: the ROCOR press service

Metropolitan Nikolay of Eastern America and New York called upon the clergy and flock of the Russian diocese abroad to continue praying for peace and support for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church led by His Beatitude, Metropolitan Onuphry, reports the ROCOR website.

Metropolitan Nikolay noted that believers of the canonical Church in Ukraine live in extremely difficult conditions, and while in the coming weeks, we have pre-Lent celebrations, pancakes, etc., it is necessary that these events are held in peace, remembering our persecuted brothers and sisters in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Metropolitan Nikolay expressed support for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine at the opening of the Council of the Eastern American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, the quarterly meeting of which was held on February 3, 2023, in a distance format.

As reported, Metropolitan Mark of Berlin and Germany said that the course of the Ukrainian authorities to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) resembles the persecution of early Christians.

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