MP to authorities: Show brotherly love to UOC believers and priests
MP Yuriy Boyko. Photo: Yuriy Boyko's Facebook
The head of the VR parliamentary group "Platform for Life and Peace", Yuriy Boyko, addressed the Ukrainian authorities regarding the searches, arrests of clergymen and pressure on the UOC. He published a video with a call to stop these processes on his YouTube channel.
"Today is Maundy Thursday. It is Holy Week when we all remember the sufferings of Christ. Unfortunately, there are sad events in our country today. It's not just the war, it's not just the suffering of people. It's also the suffering brought to clergymen through searches, arrests and attempts to tarnish the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has millions of parishioners, including those fighting on the front lines," the MP said.
Yuriy Boyko urged the Ukrainian authorities to "show mercy, brotherly love to the parishioners and stop these processes".
As the UOJ reported earlier, former MP and protodeacon of the UOC, Vadim Novinsky, commented on the searches and serving of suspicion to Metropolitan Luke of Zaporizhzhia.
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