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In an open letter, priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate called on their leader Onufriy to definitively sever ties with Russia.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday announced measures primarily targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is one of two major Orthodox churches in Ukraine following a 2019 schism.
After its searches of holy sites belonging to Ukraine’s historic Orthodox church, the nation’s security agency posted photos of evidence it recovered including rubles, Russian passports and leaflets with messages from the Moscow patriarch. Supporters and detractors of the church debate whether such items are innocuous or increase suspicions the church is a…