Although there is no mention of it in the media, the Moscow Synod’s removal of Metropolitan Nestor of Chersonese and Western Europe (based in Paris) deserves attention. Although no reason is given in the official communication from November 8, the diaspora and dissidents point to his tolerance of priests expelled from Russia for their aversion […]
A law regulating the presence and activities of the Orthodox Church linked to the Moscow Patriarchate is already in force in Ukraine, under discussion in the Supreme Court in Estonia, and planned and feared in Moldova. Three years of war with Russia have made such a law acceptable in Ukraine. The theoretical danger of invasion […]
The Ukrainian war is breaking apart the whole body of the Orthodox Church, not only the Russian one. The Orthodox Church has trouble staying united; this might have long-term consequences for the body of Christianity. The non-autocephalous Ukrainian Church under Metropolitan Onufriy has responded negatively to the injunction from the “State Service for Ethnopolitics and […]
The Ukrainian war seeps into the faith of non-Russian countries as Moscow’s orthodoxy is feared as a trojan horse of Putin’s disruptive intentions On February 19, the Estonian Parliament approved in its first reading a law aimed at preventing the use of the pro-Russian Church for anti-state purposes. The law establishes the illegality of a […]
