Your All-Holiness, we thank you for your time and courtesy in providing
the readers of “Politika” with answers to some very sensitive matters,
which characterize the positions of Orthodoxy in the contemporary world,
and specifically—as you know quite well—in answering a few very
important questions concerning the Church of Ukraine. We admit that your
explanation and arguments regarding this situation have not been
satisfactorily presented to the Serbian audience. On the other hand, the
opinion and position of the Russian Church is constantly being repeated
in the Serbian mass media, and so, the readers are fully familiar with
it. With this interview, we will seek to take advantage of the present
opportunity in order to clarify your positions and recent actions.
Therefore, we would like to begin with some general topics and
afterward, move on to more specific questions.
The crisis in Ukraine caused by the
establishment of the new church structure must only be resolved through
consensus of all Local Orthodox Churches, Archbishop Abel of Lublin and
Chełm said in an interview to the TASS news agency reporter on
31 January 2019.































