Directions to Orthodoxy - Two Orthodox public organizations in Ukraine urge to deny Ukrainian president their support

Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko (R) shakes hands with his prime minister, Viktor Yanukovich in Kiev April 10, 2007. Prime minister refuses to implement a decree by President Yushchenko ordering a new election. This post has been viewed 721 times.

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Two Orthodox public organizations in Ukraine urge to deny Ukrainian president their support
Posted on Tue Apr 10 2007

Moscow, April 9, Interfax - The St. Alexander Nevsky Brotherhood and the Orthodox Choice, Ukrainian national public organizations, have urged their followers to deny their support to Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko and accused him of pursuing an anti-Church policy.

“The policy the ‘orange power’ would like to keep so much is to create ‘a single local Church’, that is, to destroy the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. It is the destruction of the Russian culture and the Russian language; it is an attempt to draw Ukraine into NATO. All this is a civilizational revolution, an attempt to change the spiritual essence of our people, who cannot be swallowed by the Western civilization precisely because they are an Orthodox people”, the two organizations say in their statement circulated on Monday.

Therefore, the authors of the document believe, the question of whether to support or not support specific political forces and the power structures they represent is ‘the question of protection of our Church and our faith’.

The statement recalls in this connection that the Russian Orthodox Church, having adopted her own social concept, ‘gives all her faithful the right not to support the power which forces... actions against the Church, which means against one’s faith and conscience’.

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