Pope condemns Ukrainian ban on Orthodox Church over ties to Russia

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Pope condemns Ukrainian ban on Orthodox ******* over ties to Russia

Pope Francis has criticized Ukraine’s ban on the country’s Russia-linked Orthodox *******, in a sign of a growing rift between Kiev and the ********.

“No ********** ******* may be abolished directly or indirectly. The churches must not be touched,” the pontiff said in his Sunday prayers, condemning a law recently passed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukraine says the ban is justified because the Moscow Patriarchate supports the Russian war of aggression.

The pope told tens of thousands of believers in St Peter’s Square that “one does not commit evil by praying. If someone does something evil to his people, he is guilty. But he can’t have done anything bad by praying.”

Kiev has previously accused the pope of taking sides with Russia, a charge the ******** rejects.

For a long time, the Ukrainian Orthodox ******* set the tone in Ukraine’s complex ******* landscape. It belonged to the Moscow Patriarchate until 2022, but after the Russian invasion it officially cut its ties to Moscow and condemned the war.

Nevertheless, Kiev accuses it of justifying Russian ******* against its own people and spreading Russian ***********. An estimated 3 million worshippers are affected by the ban.

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