{"id":112678,"date":"2022-06-01T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112678"},"modified":"2022-06-01T12:11:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:11:25","slug":"rns-ukrainian-orthodox-primate-we-are-called-to-stop-this-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112678","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Ukrainian Orthodox primate: \u2018We are called to stop this evil\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>You invited all Orthodox Christians to reject Moscow\u2019s spiritual yoke. Are you specifically addressing those 400 Russian Orthodox priests in Ukraine who have called for a church tribunal against Patriarch Kirill?<\/h3>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t relate only to those priests. This is for all those in the Russian Orthodox Church. In Ukraine, it is the one state institution that has a connection to Moscow. That\u2019s why I call all Orthodox people to unite around Kyiv, because the spiritual part of it is very important. Putin very successfully uses the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. But we see that gradually Ukrainian people understand all this.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest poll taken at the beginning of March, before the atrocities in Bucha were revealed, 70% of Ukraine was Orthodox Christian. Among them, 52% support (the Orthodox Church) of Ukraine. Only 4% support the Russian Orthodox Church. Last year in December, they had the support of 15%.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I am convinced that eventually we will all be in one local Orthodox Church of Ukraine. As long as we have the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, it creates some illusion for Putin. He had an illusion before the full-scale invasion that in three, four days he will capture all Ukraine. He thought Ukraine would accept him, meet him with flowers, but it didn\u2019t happen. Every parish in Ukraine has to have a free choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2022\/05\/31\/ukrainian-orthodox-patriarch-we-are-called-to-stop-this-evil\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Metropolitan Epiphanius of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine sat down with Religion News Service in an exclusive interview on the grounds of St. Michael\u2019s golden-domed monastery in Kyiv.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8m1bHvEUu3\">https:\/\/t.co\/8m1bHvEUu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Religion News Service (@RNS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNS\/status\/1531968813738205184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You invited all Orthodox Christians to reject Moscow\u2019s spiritual yoke. Are you specifically addressing those 400 Russian Orthodox priests in Ukraine who have called for a church tribunal against Patriarch Kirill? It doesn\u2019t relate only to those priests. This is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112678\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,418,479,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-armed-forces","category-orthodox-church","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112682,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112678\/revisions\/112682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}