‘Pressure on UOC’: Russian Orthodox Church on OCU registration of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
Systematic acts of intimidation, such as searches, detentions, provocations and threats at the highest level are part of an orchestrated campaign aiming to create an illusion of undermined people’s trust in the canonical Church in order to justify the subsequent lawlessness, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for Society and Mass Media Relations Vladimir Legoyda said