Posted on 11/19/2019 7:12:14 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
He says this is the violation of the right to freedom of conscience and religion.
Photo: Epifaniy/Facebook Photo: Epifaniy/Facebook Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) Epifaniy (Epiphanius) says de-facto authorities in Russia-occupied Crimea are planning to demolish the building of the OCU's temple in the town of Yevpatoria. Read alsoPatriarchate of Alexandria recognizes autocephaly of Orthodox Church of Ukraine
According to him, the right to freedom of conscience and religion is being violated at the Cathedral of St. Vladimir and St. Olga in Simferopol and the temple of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Yevpatoria.
"I urge the Ukrainian government to finally make a decision, which, unfortunately, has not been taken in the previous years to resolve the issue of ownership of the premises of the cathedral and the diocesan administration in Simferopol. This step will demonstrate legal and moral support to the Ukrainian community in Crimea from our state and will provide an opportunity to more effectively protect [the community's] rights at the international level," Epifaniy wrote on Facebook.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Epifaniy said that over 500 parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) had changed their denomination in the past six months and joined the newly created OCU.
Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/society/10760021-crimea-occupying-authorities-to-demolish-ukrainian-church-s-temple-in-yevpatoria-epifaniy.html?fbclid=IwAR13VguYJJXtoEArkwZM8AXbNkEItBXki5j9fKtDXgPbJJdNSLxStjmikCs
Archbishop of simferopol and crimean clement together with the community fights for the right to pray in the Cathedral Cathedral of saints Vladimir and Olga in The Simferopol from which their force kicks the Russian state. This "hot point" has added another - the temple of the Ukrainian church in eupatoria, which the occupation power tries to just endure
Kisses to the Ukrainian government will finally adopt a decision, which, unfortunately, has not been uhvalene for previous years, to solve the question of property on the premises of the cathedral and the Simferopol. This step show legal and moral support of the Ukrainian community of Crimea on the side of our state and will give the opportunity to more effectively protect its
And the Russian power again kisses - shamenítʹsâ and stop the crime against the laws of human and the law of the Remember the fortunes of the Soviet Atheists and do not repeat their way, by the temples of God.
https://www.facebook.com/epifaniy/posts/2449520528596835
Past 24 hours in the war zone
https://www.facebook.com/groups/prayforukraine/permalink/2463107983806465/
You’re back! Good! Miss those reports on the Ukraine.
This is BS Ukrainian disinformation.
Russia does not demolish churches in this modern era.
And you cannot cite a single example from a mainstream source.
This troll always had the oddest sources during the 2016 campaign.
Ah yes, now I see. It’s Ukranian, complete with an image they can use to track our IP addresses. Thanks a lot you joker.
In fact this is true but the idea is that the whole story is a provocation by the Ukrainian government with the purpose to provoke exactly that headline.
The picture of the ‘temple’ treadstarter included in a post is intentionally misleading.
Actual ‘church’ ordered removed is a small wooden shed with a cross on it installed by the schismatic political Ukrainian government church on someone’s else land (in the front yard of an apartment building in fact and in a manner to obstruct the use of the building by residents).
The only purpose of this building was to get demolished and to provoke headline like that.
Like I said, complete BS disinformation.
Knowingly posted by a freeper.
Wait, what?
This is the Orthodox Church of Ukraine vs The Ukraine Orthodox Church?
I think I saw this in a Monty Python movie once.
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/ukraine-religious-liberty-moscow-russian-orthodox-church/
etc, etc
Thanks... Ukraine national political activity is crazy right now: being messed with by Russia much like Dems messing with U.S. government
Are you hinting Ukrainians burned it?
November 17- The first thing we completely change in the "house of mercy" [church] on frontline is heating. We install this solid fuel boiler that was made to order. Oh, how not cheap and not fast everything is related to repair. We hope until the new year, we will have time to make a part of the renovation to settle the first oldies. Doing good together. Ирина Kosâk, Анатолий Beskrovnyj, Wade Kusack, Vitaliy APiekhotin , TG Ball, Геннадий Prosânko (Gennadiy Prosyanko), Andriy Manelyuk and many others. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLMgHCHuA1g&t=8s&fbclid=IwAR1pzgnd3e7kpNGNTFVJUkSTYDCDu8K0A9NRq8_33k3hLIAXcx3Uhdl4V-c 
While you emote over Russia’s intolerance, you have not provided a single link or citation to support your assertion that Russia demolishes churches.
I’ll ascribe it to naive ignorance rather than malice.
That's a 'church' in question. Built in violation of area codes and on a parking lot belonging to a condominium without both permits from municipality and homeowners. Residents objected and there was a lawsuit to remove it over all of the above but such a great headline as a result. 'Russian Court persecutes Christians' no less.
Maybe, you missed this article that would give an answer
NATIONAL REVIEW:
“Moreover, the USCIRF noted, “in Russian-occupied para-states of eastern Ukraine, religious freedom is at the whim of armed militias not beholden to any legal authority.” As war zones, the “People’s Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk “remain heavily militarized war zones policed by parallel ‘Ministries of State Security.’” Unsurprisingly, “basic human rights, including freedom of religious belief, are under intense pressure in these territories.” Churches must register, but no churches that are non-Orthodox or that belong to the Kiev patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church have been approved. Members of non-favored denominations “have been subject to arrest, torture, and murder. Churches were seized or destroyed, and parishioners were intimidated.” Whatever Russia’s justification for intervening in Ukraine, the suppression of freedom of conscience cannot be justified.
The crimes promoted by Moscow are detailed in a new report, “Religious Freedom at Gunpoint: Russian Terror in the Occupied Territories of Eastern Ukraine,” from the Institute for Religious Freedom, underwritten by the Institute of Geopolitical Division and Mission Eurasia. The IRF found that abuses began as soon as pro-Russian separatists took control in April 2014. Anti-Semitic pamphlets first appeared. Then came “kidnapping and illegal imprisonment, emotional abuse, physical torture and even murders of unwelcome clergymen and believers of ‘non-traditional denominations.’”
The result is “a real nightmare for local religious communities that did not experience such persecution even during the Soviet terror times. This was also accompanied by the seizure of churches and houses of worship, some of which were used as firing positions and barracks for militants, mercenaries and regular Russian troops.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/ukraine-religious-liberty-moscow-russian-orthodox-church/
Thank you. :)
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