Ukraine's Parliament has approved a historic bill to ban the Orthodox Church with ties to the Russian Patriarchate. It has not yet gone into effect but gives the affected parishes 9 months to \u201ccut ties with the Russian Orthodox Church,\u201d which has repeatedly supported the country's invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bill was passed with a majority of 265 votes. And President Zelenskyy commented on the importance of this bill, saying: Bartholomew is Patriarch of Constantinople and has repeatedly condemned Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill's support of the invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the early months of the conflict in 2022, Pope Francis had a phone call with Patriarch Kirill to dicsuss the importance of ongoing dialogue. The two also stated that \u201cthe Church must not use the language of politics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pope has repeatedly tried to meet with Kirill since the invasion: from a meeting in Jerusalem in June 2022 to the plenary session of the Congress for the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan. But both were cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n September 2022<\/strong> The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the Ukrainian parliament's decision almost immediately. Its spokeswoman described the bill as an attempt to: The Moscow Patriarchate also responded by saying this decision is a \u201cclear violation of internationally recognized human rights in the field of religious freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ukrainian President Zelenskyy called this bill a law for their \u201cspiritual independence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":70566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Kt34jAE8VHs","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bucrainachiesarussiavietataeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bucrainachiesarussiavietataeng.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70569,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70565\/revisions\/70569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Today I want to note the work of the Verkhovna Rada. A law on our spiritual independence was passed. This is what we discussed with members of the Council of Churches and Religious Organizations. And in the coming days, I will also speak with representatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
-How is Patriarch Kirill?
-Good, good.
-Tell him I say hello.
-We spoke yesterday and he asked me to pass along his greeting.
-As do I to him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2026destroy true canonical Orthodoxy and replace it with a surrogate, a false Church.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n