{"id":179294,"date":"2020-04-15T06:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=179294"},"modified":"2023-08-27T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T08:50:07","slug":"the-political-control-over-religion-in-ukraine-is-rising-amid-the-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2020\/04\/15\/the-political-control-over-religion-in-ukraine-is-rising-amid-the-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"The political control over religion in Ukraine is rising amid the Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Orthodox Church in Montenegro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Known for a controversial political situation the current confrontation of the political and religious institutes in Ukraine are on the agenda today. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in\nFebruary, the split in the Ukraine became one of the main topics at the meeting\nof Primate and representatives of the Local Churches, devoted to the problems\nof inter-Orthodox unity in Amman, Jordan. The Primate of the Ukrainian Church,\nMetropolitan Onufry, contrary to the opinion of the “autocephalous”\nlobby inside the Institute stated that the canonical autocephaly that is the\nonly “right” autocephaly in Ukraine.\u201cToday, some say that a powerful\nmeans to avoid the split in tthe Ukraine’s Chhurch is to receive autocephalous\nstatus for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. I want to be honest with God and my\nconscience and I\u2019ll say: I\u2019m sure that the autocephalous status of the\nUkrainian Orthodox Church will only foster the split. Some may return to the\nfold of the canonical Church, but not all. Autocephaly does not guarantee the\nabsolute unity. And the autocephalous Churches existing in the world have their\nown splits, \u201dhe said. In fact, Metropolitan Onufry once again demonstrated his\nsupport for the unity of the Russian Orthodox Church, an integral part of which\nis the integral part of the canonical Ukrainian Church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the brief in Amman, the Kiev metropolitan went to Montenegro, which is also far from accidental. Back in Amman, the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Montenegro, Metropolitan of Montenegro-Primorsky Amphilochius spoke about the parallels between the situations in Montenegro and Ukraine.\u201cThere was a time when the people and their sovereigns were Orthodox, baptized. After the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and our revolution in Yugoslavia, as in many other countries, the states became secular. During this time, the Communists created new nations, for us it is the “Macedonian nation”, the “Montenegrin” … Many nations were separated from previously united Orthodox peoples. Probably, the Patriarch of Constantinople simply did not think about this when he began to build Ukrainian autocephaly on modern secular rules rather than ancient Orthodox principles, \u201dhe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every\nSunday and Thursday in many cities of Montenegro, mass processions and prayers\nare held against the law on religious associations and in support of the\nSerbian Orthodox Church. Montenegrin police do not announce the total number of\nparticipants or data by region. According to opposition estimates, about 200\nthousand people participated in the last peaceful processions and prayers, with\na population of about 630 thousand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Known for a controversial political situation the current confrontation of the political and religious institutes in Ukraine are on the agenda today. Earlier in February, the split in the Ukraine became one of the main topics at the meeting of Primate and representatives of the Local Churches, devoted to the problems of inter-Orthodox unity in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4095,"featured_media":179295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[835,10807,834],"tags":[10233,1153,6126,9776],"class_list":["post-179294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-olga-malik","category-regions","tag-montenegro","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-ukraine-eastern-europe-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}