“the authorities in Ukraine and Armenia were destroying the Church using Bolshevik methods
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“the state's decision to seize the churches and property of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra from the UOC is shameful
“The Ukrainian government has literally terminated the right of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to use the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, as it has done for almost a thousand years.
“The Church of Albania had been persecuted, desolate and seemed dead. Its churches and monasteries had been closed, plundered, alienated or destroyed. Worship had been prohibited by law.
“the Kyiv authorities are persecuting the UOC even though the Church openly opposed the military invasion and declared its independence from Moscow
“But now, thanks to the joint efforts of the Ukrainian state – the president, the government, the Verkhovna Rada – and the Ukrainian Church, the Lavra is breaking free from the shackles of the ‘Russian world’ and returning to its roots
“through the efforts of Zelensky and the OCU, the Lavra is breaking free from the shackles of the Russian World and returning to its roots