Phanar Archons: The UOC is targeting and killing members of the OCU
Phanar Archons. Photo: open sources
The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (AEP) have published a statement accusing believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of targeting – and even killing – members of the OCU.
The statement, signed by Anthony Limberakis, speaks "with dismay and regret" of a distressing situation that "His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has criticized on numerous occasions."
“When the Ecumenical Patriarch granted autocephaly (independence) to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine on January 6, 2019, a splinter group calling itself the Ukrainian Orthodox Church remained aligned with the Moscow Patriarchate. That splinter group, an arm of the Moscow Patriarchate, is now targeting and killing members of the canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine, targeting civilians in order to sow terror among the population and make them too frightened to join the canonical Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” the AEP's statement reads.
However, the archons did not provide a single example of UOC believers “targeting or killing” members of the OCU.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that the Phanar Archons had criticized the White House meeting on protecting the UOC.
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