Member states have backed the Kiev authorities’ “blasphemous practices” at a major Orthodox monastery, the Russian foreign minister has said.
There is “rampant Satanism” in certain EU member states, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has alleged, citing their connivance in the Ukrainian authorities’ “blasphemous practices” at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Orthodox monastery.
Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, the government in Kiev has intensified its crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church over allegations that it has connections to Moscow. The Ukrainian authorities have since conducted numerous raids on monasteries and launched dozens of criminal cases on collaboration charges against clerics, as well as property seizures.
At the same time, Vladimir Zelensky’s government has backed the rival Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which the Russian Orthodox Church considers schismatic.
Speaking at a Russian Foreign Ministry reception on Wednesday dedicated to Orthodox Easter, Lavrov stated that the Ukrainian leadership has rejected “their spiritual and civilizational roots.”
“The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been persecuted for over a decade now, with churches [forcibly] taken over, vandalized and clergy and parishioners harassed,” he said.
Particularly “outrageous and disgusting” is the Ukrainian authorities’ initiative to create an “inventory and inspect the holy relics in terms of their historical and scientific value” at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery.
According to Lavrov, the “Ukrainian Ministry of Culture used this bureaucratic formula to conceal its legalized blasphemous practices, while several European countries have turned a blind eye to these developments or even directly supported them.”
“There is rampant Satanism in these countries, too,” the Russian foreign minister concluded.
Last March, the first reports emerged of Ukrainian government officials and police forcing their way into the catacombs of what is considered the nation’s most significant monastery and the final resting place of several Christian saints.
Incidentally, this is not the first time Lavrov has suggested there are Satanic tendencies in the West.
Speaking in February, after the US Department of Justice released a large trove of the so-called Epstein files, the Russian foreign minister said that the materials had “revealed the face of the West.”
“Every normal person knows this is beyond comprehension and pure Satanism,” Lavrov stated then.
Pot calling the kettle black. Russia is doing the same to certain religious groups including JW’s.
I look forward to your list of these supposed happenings in Russia. There is no mention from Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist and other traditional protestant churches at liberty to practice their religion in the Federation. It is true that the JW’s and Mormons are restricted there as are any fringe alleged Christian groups. And the Russians have every right to do so, it’s their country after all. Do some research on the number of non-orthodox churches there, the number of non-orthodox Christians free to practice their faith, and their current rate of growth. It may surprise you.
And before pointing out the issues in Russia, check out the fall of Christianity in the West. And it’s obvious non-biblical practices with homosexual clergy and the abuse of minors in their care. And the Jehovah’s Witnesses are in the frame for that as well.
Beams in eyes my friend.
Very true. And the Mormons are in the frame for it as well. Many muslims working in Russia but they have their homes in the ‘stans and go back there without trying to take over Russia. Since Beslan in 2004 everyone learnt a lesson. The Russians won’t have that happening again.
Mr. Lavrov is correct, & BTW- has anyone seen the U.S. Republican Party Elephant with the upside down stars representing Goat T. Mendez /Satanic Baphomet? This is visually signalling that the Freemasons now are ruling as the majority in the House & Senate.
But behind the ruling majority of mah-han-boners and Jabalon Worshippers, the Mossad / AIPAC-appointed ‘handlers’ are in fulll control of those so-called (s)elected officials’…
The JW’s and the Mormons are heavily ifluenced by the J3w$, and support the same unconditionally!
To name a few signs of this rampant satanism, the Epstein syndicate, the scandalous olympic opening “ceremony” in France a few years ago as wel as the criminal arson of Notre-Dame in Paris as well as arson of a multitude of churches through Europe
Sergey Lavrov is a very well resspected foreign diplomat, a very measured and intentional man who brings receipts.
It is quite Russian to understate a matter so you can formulate your own conclusion. We westerners expect our media to spoon feed us and tell us what to think.
If FM Lavrov says they are Satanic, I expect there is much more to it than staking a reputation on nothing.