I don't know, but the last paragraph of this article is frightening:
are there actually any Ukrainians who would prefer to remain in the Ukrainian orthodox church and or in communion with the Russian orthodox church?
Yes, and I think the majority of that "reputation" is American anti-Russian propaganda. Members of the State Department have been meddling in Ukraine for the past at least three years.
I do know what you mean, but I mostly follow Russian news, so it's hard to think of it as American propaganda. For me, anyway. Like, why would a Russian channel like Russia Today, officially funded by the Russian government, go to such trouble to broadcast American propaganda that shows that two guys accused of a poisoning in England are obviously lying when they say why they were there, when they say they aren't military intelligence agents...which, a few days later, they were exposed as being. CNN didn't participate in that at all, in effect, the Russian government broadcast it to millions of viewers. And it makes Russia look like it in fact, almost openly, does exactly the kind of thing the Metropolitan is talking about.
The overwhelming majority of Ukranians are in the canonical church autonomous to Russia. All this nonsense about the schismatics being more numerous than the canonical Orthodox Church is fake news as they only poll the western most part of Ukraine where there is a hodgepodge of uniates and schismatics. These propagandist dont even count the people in the eastern half as Ukraine citizens. There are 12,000 parishes aligned with MP. Both of the schismatic groups have less than 7,000 combined. Photos of religious public processions on the streets show the canonical Orthodox Church has way more laity than the schismatics.
I'm talking about the Mainstream Media. It has been shoving the Russia meddling in our 2016 election since the day after the election (even though it was discovered Clinton and her campaign managers already had this strategy before election day, and the pied piper strategy in promoting Trump to win the Republican primary as early as the summer/fall of 2015) down our throats. No evidence of Russian meddling was found as suspected, as it was just a distraction from the rigging done by Clinton and the DNC in the Dem. primary. That's what I'm talking about. Anything bad that happens in politics and such, it's Russia's doing. And nobody in the Clinton camp ever accused Russians of actually tampering and changing votes, just that they supposedly worked with Julian Assange to expose what the DNC/Podesta emails that showed their deception, which Assange denied that a Russian was his source.
Yeah, I also wonder about the Russian fear-mongering. If there's all this evidence, can we see it?
