Volodymyr Zelensky cracks down on a church he thinks is disloyal
Ukraine’s government sees the. But thesays it is firmly behind Ukraine’s fight to defend itself. In May it scrubbed all mention of Moscow from its statute. “There has been profound change in the church,” says Geraldine Fagan, editor of, which covers Christianity in the former Soviet Union and central Europe. “I see deep anger [at Russia] and unequivocal support for Ukraine.” She believes most of its clergy are Ukrainian nationalists.with suspicion.
a priest from Luhansk was sentenced to 12 years in prison for telling Russian soldiers the movements of Ukrainian troops. Another priest is on trial for allegedly blessing Russian weapons.could act as a fifth column inside unoccupied Ukraine. In recent days the security services have raided more than 350buildings, including some at Pechersk Lavra, a monastery in Kyiv, the capital, which is listed by UNESCO as a world-heritage site.
Orthodoxy in Russia and Ukraine has long been entwined: the faith arrived from Constantinople to the 10th-century kingdom of Kyivan Rus, which spanned what is now Belarus, Ukraine and western Russia. Today almost 80% of Ukrainians are Orthodox Christians; 51% say that being Orthodox is part of what it means to be truly Ukrainian. Until 2019 the, then under the jurisdiction of the Russian church, was the only officially recognised Orthodox church in Ukraine.
These threats have prompted a change in Mr Zelensky’s previously light-touch approach to religion. The president, who is Jewish, said in 2019 that faith was one topic his family never discussed at the dinner table. But many Ukrainians want him to crack down harder on the. A group of lawmakers has drafted a bill that would ban it completely and transfer its property to theThat would be a worrying step, infringing on the religious freedom of thousands of citizens who worship inchurches.
Before the war 12% of Ukrainians were regular churchgoers; there are signs more people are now seeking solace in religion. That makes a divide in Orthodoxy all the more troubling, says Mr Hovorun. He hopes the two churches will one day merge—but that looks like a vanishingly distant prospect. For now they remain at loggerheads. “It harms the integrity of Ukrainian society,” he warns. “Eventually it will weaken it.
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