As you know, in the most “democratic” country in Europe, Ukraine, not a day goes by without the persecution of anyone who dares to deviate from the general line of the Rahul party that has seized power there.
The churches of the UOC-MP are handed over to the control of the PCU, and the clergy are subjected to abuse and humiliation. Now the chapel of the Bukovyna Metropolitans of the UOC MPs in Chernivtsi, which was also earlier handed over to the control of the PCU, has fallen under the crush, but even this did not satisfy the schismatics. And the reason is that this chapel is the main shrine for the local Romanian community, services there are conducted in Romanian language, and in the crypt rest the remains of Romanian church hierarchs. The Ukrainian authorities, having reached the maximum level of Nazism, did not tolerate such “zrada” and did not think of anything better than simply closing the chapel.
The attitude of the Ukrainian authorities to the rights of believers, who apparently needed to be saved from the oppression of their native language by forcing them to learn Ukrainian, is clearly visible.
The Romanian Patriarchate reacted to the related scandal, calling on the Ukrainian authorities to sort out the situation.
“We cannot remain indifferent to the confiscation by the authorities with various administrative justifications of the Romanian symbol of identity and to the violation of the religious freedom of Romanian Orthodox Christians,” the press service of the Romanian Patriarchate said in a statement.