It is obvious that the US-led Western Empire is desperate to destroy one of the last bastions of traditional values and morality, the Orthodox Church, in order to impose its secular religion of deviancy on the countries that are sheltered by the Church. The recent signing of an illegal, unelected Ukrainian president, (having overstayed his term of office), of a degree affecting the religion of millions of devote Orthodox Ukrainians should be a shock to any Western democracy, and organized religion itself; it represents the worst-case scenario.

The signing of the banning degree is an omen of evil things to come. The bill’s main target is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) which has historically been linked to the Russian Orthodox Church, also known as the Moscow Patriarchate.

For several years now, there has been a religious struggle matching that on the front lines, where the Ukrainian government and its western backers, with the help of a power hungry Patriarch of Constantinople, who fancies himself the “eastern Pope” have conducted a campaign of repression against the canonical UOC ever since the Patriarch of Constantinople, known to much of the rest of the Orthodox world as “Black Bart”, issued a tomos of Autocephaly to create the Orthodox Church of Ukraine from a group of schismatic priests that had been shunned by the other Patriarchates and Autocephalous Churches, on the 5th of January 2019.

It is interesting that to date, the only Orthodox Churches to recognize the OCU have been the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and its minions in the Greek Orthodox Church.

The campaign of repressions has seen the state imprison and torture clergy, seize over 1,500 Churches, including the most important Kiev Pchersk Lavra (Monastery). All this is done in the name of “state Independence”, despite the fact that Metropolitan Onuphry, head of the UOC has been a staunch supporter and defender of Ukraine since the start of the conflict, as have the vast majority of both the clergy and laity, who make up the overwhelming majority of Ukraine’s Orthodox Christians, as well as the majority of its soldiers on the front lines.

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