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The Friday Pillar Post
Happy Friday friends,
It’s been something of a busy week in the news, so I am going to spare you the banter up top as we dive right in.
The News
Our top stories this week both come from Ukraine via our correspondent, Anatolii Babynskyi.
Yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a coming major crackdown on the operation of Moscow-affiliated Orthodox churches in the country.
For weeks, Ukrainian intelligence services have been staging raids on monasteries, rectories, and chanceries belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). The government claims to have found reams of Russian propaganda material promoting the Russkiy-mir worldview of Vladimir Putin and denying the right of Ukraine to exist as an independent nation.
Now, Zelensky says, there will be “a bill to prevent the activities in Ukraine of religious organizations affiliated with the centers of influence in the Russian Federation,” and he’s instructing national security authorities to “intensify measures to identify and counteract the subversive activities of the Russian special services in the religious environment of Ukraine.”
Which brings us to our second big story of the week from Ukraine:
Continued below.
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Happy Friday friends,
It’s been something of a busy week in the news, so I am going to spare you the banter up top as we dive right in.
The News
Our top stories this week both come from Ukraine via our correspondent, Anatolii Babynskyi.
Yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a coming major crackdown on the operation of Moscow-affiliated Orthodox churches in the country.
For weeks, Ukrainian intelligence services have been staging raids on monasteries, rectories, and chanceries belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). The government claims to have found reams of Russian propaganda material promoting the Russkiy-mir worldview of Vladimir Putin and denying the right of Ukraine to exist as an independent nation.
Now, Zelensky says, there will be “a bill to prevent the activities in Ukraine of religious organizations affiliated with the centers of influence in the Russian Federation,” and he’s instructing national security authorities to “intensify measures to identify and counteract the subversive activities of the Russian special services in the religious environment of Ukraine.”
Which brings us to our second big story of the week from Ukraine:
Continued below.
Church and state in Ukraine, ‘un-baptisms’ in Belgium, and bread in France
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