Ukrainian Catholic leader warns against Orthodox ban

(OSV News) -- The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church has warned against moves by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government to outlaw Orthodox communities linked to Moscow, and urged his countrymen to 'give Russians a chance to repent.'

'I don't wish to give prescriptions to our legislators but we were once banned as well, and we survived underground,' said Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych. 'Our own moral authority was saved by becoming a martyred church which did not coll

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