© Anatolii Stepanov / Demotix / SCANPIXMembers of Svoboda (Freedom) Party are carrying the portrait of Stepan Bandera during a torchlight procession in Kiev, 1. January 2014.
Journalist Yulia Voinova reported that members of the Svoboda party had seized an Orthodox church in the village of Stryzhavka, Vinnitsa region by force .
Julia Voinova wrote about this on Facebook.
"The seizure of the Temple. The Svoboda Party seized the temple in the village of Strizhavka, Vinnitsa Region. Father Igor asks for prayers," wrote Yulia Voinov.
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Earlier FRN reported that
the Rada managed to adopt the law on renaming the UOC-MP into the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. It turned out that before the voting, they simply blackmailed deputies to get a majority.Poroshenko is pushing a schism in the Orthodox Church with assistance from the Vatican and Atlanticist vectors of power, for a number of reasons. The creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine represents a schismatic move which cuts against centuries of practice and decrees on the subject.
from Strana.ua - translated by and for FRN -
Comment: As noted in
Poroshenko's meddling with church violate Ukraine's constitution:
The drive for the "independence" of the Ukrainian church, however, might be deeper than a mere pre-election stunt of Poroshenko, since it has hardly scored him any political points, Nemenskiy says. Attempts at securing an independent church had already been made by Poroshenko's predecessors, and some say it's unlikely that Kiev is calling the shots here.
"The project of the church separation of Ukraine from Russia is quite old, and not connected with Poroshenko. President [Viktor] Yushchenko already tried to fulfill it. So, the initiative likely comes not from Poroshenko, but from the US, and he could not get away from this project regardless of his election campaign prospects," Nemenskiy said, adding that "the Constantinople Patriarchate is actually an American church, the majority of its congregations is located in America."
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Comment: As noted in Poroshenko's meddling with church violate Ukraine's constitution: See also: