‘The US is Determined to Destroy Global Orthodox Christian Unity’ – Sergey Lavrov

Patriarch Kirill with Sergey Lavrov. Pic – https://mospat.ru/

OCP News Service – 2/9/21

Moscow-Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that United States of America is all set to destroy the unity between Orthodox Churches. The Russian Orthodox Church is under tremendous pressure form the US according to Lavrov. He also stated that an extremely destructive role is played the Patriarch of Constantinople who tried to split the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

“It is (Russian Church) currently under tremendous pressure from a number of Western countries, primarily the United States, which set itself the goal of destroying the unity of world Orthodox Christianity. An extremely destructive role in that is played by the patriarch of Constantinople who tried to split the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Such attempts are now being observed against Belarus and Mediterranean countries, in particular, Syria, Lebanon and in the Balkans where the Serbian Orthodox Church is being subjected to very powerful attacks,” stated the Russian Foreign Minister.

‘Russian Foreign Ministry closely cooperates with the Russian Orthodox Church. The Russian Orthodox Church promote its values abroad, and it contributes in achieving Russia’s foreign policy goals. The first and foremost, there is a dire need to uphold traditional spiritual and moral values, which are currently under attack by neoliberal elites in a number of Western countries’, he concluded.

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OCP News Service