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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) began by violating the canons from the moment of its creation. As for the historical aspects, one can argue for a long time, but as of 2019, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) was the only canonical, world-recognized church in the entire Orthodox world. 1...
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    This is former President Poroshenko, who served as a sexton in one of the Kyiv monasteries of the UOC before the 2014 elections: But the same President Poroshenko is in parliament with pickets: "the UOC is an agent net of Moscow" (2024): That is, the Ukrainian people voted for him as a...
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    As one of the proofs of the "crime", one priest of the OCU cited the argument that the Charter of the UOC states that it received independence from the Moscow Patriarch, i.e. that the Moscow Patriarch is mentioned there. But I would answer him that the documents on independence and recognition...
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    Thank you! Glory to God! Thank God, the UOC is recognized by all Orthodox churches in the world now. No matter what countries our refugees ended up in, they could go to Orthodox churches and participate in the sacraments.
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    I agree that for the salvation of the soul it does not matter what church, as long as it is canonical and Orthodox. But the same claims will be made against the American Orthodox Church: despite the fact that it is autocephalous, it does not have its own patriarch, but is blessing for some...
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    Вот ссылка на закон: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/3894-20#Text I glanced through it and this is what I immediately saw: 1) "directly or indirectly connected (including through the speeches of their leaders) support armed aggression against Ukraine"; 2) "whose governing center is located...
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    To be objective, I will present the opposite point of view. This is a monk from Athos, Russian by nationality, he is a better advocate for Ukrainians than the Ukrainians themselves and he believes that the above-mentioned law did not ban the UOC, but only gave the UOC 9 months to prove its...
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    However, this topic is not about war, but about the defense of the UOC. Here is a video that I accidentally saw today: It seems this issue is starting to creep into American politics.
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    During the Second World War, Poland's territory was captured much faster than Ukraine's. What will happen if Poland falls too?
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    It seems to me that interference in the internal affairs of the country that is helping still happens, only it is done secretly. It seems to me that a situation may arise when one thing will be said from the podium, and another in secret. Or maybe we understand democracy differently. In any...
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    What could motivate Americans to defend real democracy and human rights in Ukraine? What could motivate them to defend the UOC?
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    Human life has become less valuable than ever.
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    Ukrainian propaganda has been inflating public opinion that we are so important to Europeans, as part of them, that they can't sleep peacefully, knowing that we are suffering. And now I see that this is not true. Yes, they help a little, but they don't worry much even about mass deaths. Kievans...
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    Yes, there is a difference in attitude towards different nations. Then in the summer of 2022, there was a period when Ukraine was losing 500 people a day at the front (not counting civilians). I decided to see what the BBC was writing about this. The first report was that in Germany a car ran...
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    In what cases can a traditional church be banned in democratic states? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may be banned.

    It's terrible that you wrote that innocent people were cruelly punished without any guilt, based on one assumption. But at least they were foreigners. Our representatives of the UOC are those people, most of whom had ancestors born here. The UOC traces its history back to the 10th century, to...
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