Metropolitan Luke urges to pray for admonition of Ukrainian lawmakers

Metropolitan Luke. Photo: Metropolitan Luke's Telegram channel

Metropolitan Luke of Zaporizhia and Melitopol called for prayers for the admonition of Ukrainian lawmakers attempting to pass bill 8371, which contradicts Ukrainian legislation, on his Telegram channel.

"Some 'people's representatives' who hate the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are once again attempting to defile both our Mother Church and the Lord God Himself through the humiliation of Holy Orthodoxy.

Bill No. 8371 contradicts Ukrainian legislation, as evidenced by the conclusions of the Main Scientific Expert Department and the Legal Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Moreover, this document is composed illiterately, though the latter is forgivable, as the compilers, apparently, were under the influence of evil," notes the UOC hierarch.

Metropolitan Luke emphasized that Orthodox citizens of Ukraine are at the same time citizens of the Kingdom of God and have every right to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.

"I ask you to strengthen your prayers to God, the Queen of Heaven, Saint Nicholas (read the Akathist to Saint Nicholas) for peace in Ukraine and for the admonition of lawmakers so blinded by diabolical machinations that they have completely lost the ability to tell falsehood from truth.

Let us pray for the day when ‘the eyes of the blind shall see, and the ears of the deaf be opened' (Isaiah 35:5)!" the bishop urged.

As reported by the UOJ, the Legal Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine criticized bill 8371, which aims to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

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