Speaking to the members of the Interreligious Council of Russia on December 6, Patriarch Kirill said the following on the issue of Ukrainian autocephaly: “Everything we see now on television and in the press is a sign of the unprecedented interference of the Ukrainian state in the affairs of the Church. A State that manifests its European choice. And in this European civilization, the idea of a secular State occupies
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