In view of the liquidation of the tent church near the Supreme Council, the Council of Orthodox Women of Ukraine on May 18 published a statement accusing President Viktor Yanukovych of “provoking an anti-Orthodox tendency in Ukraine.”
In view of the liquidation of the tent church near the Supreme Council, the Council of Orthodox Women of Ukraine on May 18 published a statement accusing President Viktor Yanukovych of “intensifying the anti-Orthodox tendency in Ukraine” and of a “discriminatory attitude of the authorities of Ukraine” toward the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.
The statement posted by the website of the head of the council, Natalia Vitrenko, reads that the act of force against the Orthodox Church of Oleksandr Nevskyi shows “both the disguised character of the Orthodox faith of Ukraine’s president personally and the fact that the Party of Regions has got its hands on power and has lost all moral principles to such an extent that it continues to provoke in Ukraine anti-Orthodox tendencies, started under President Kravchuk, to please Greek Catholics, excommunicated Filaret and other denominations foreign to Malorosia [Little Russia].”
Natalia Vitrenko for the first time calls her organization the “Council.” Earlier the organization was called the Union of Orthodox Women of Ukraine, reported religion.in.ua.