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His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia, currently visiting Moscow,
took the opportunity to forcefully speak out in support of the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church, the patriarchal press service of the Russian Orthodox Church reports.
“The martyric Ukrainian Church—where the holy Prince Vladimir
baptized the people of Holy Rus’—is now being defiled by the
schismatics’ blasphemy, violence, and bloodshed,” His Holiness
emphasized, speaking at the International Public Foundation for the
Unity of Orthodox Peoples award ceremony in Moscow yesterday.
His Holiness was the recipient of this year’s award, which was
bestowed upon him in the Hall of Church Councils of Moscow’s Christ the
Savior Cathedral.
“Anyone who helps the Ukrainian schismatics is an enemy not only of
the Russian Church and the Russian world, but also of all Orthodox
Slavic nations and the entire Orthodox world,” said the primate of the
Serbian Orthodox Church.
In conclusion, Pat. Irinej wished that peace and harmony in truth
would come to the Ukrainian land, that the faithful would build up and
fill ancient and new churches, and that a united Holy Rus’ would
continue its mission for the benefit of the entire Christian world with
firmness and strength, Interfax-Religion adds.
