Evangelical Bishop: Unpleasant Smell of Dictatorship Is Penetrating Each Area of Life

According to the bishop, many of our misfortunes are caused by the fact that Ukrainians have not learned to appreciate freedom and cannot unite at important moments.

“The true church should not be political as it will lose its spiritual influence, and it should not have a right to be apolitical as, in that case, it commits another crime because it does not pray, does not analyze and does not help people to interpret correctly the reality,” said Bishop Vasyl Boiechko of the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals) in answer to our RISU correspondent’s question on what he thinks about the political situation in Ukraine.

According to the bishop, many of our misfortunes are caused by the fact that Ukrainians have not learned to appreciate freedom and cannot unite at important moments.

In his opinion, that inability to consolidate opens the door to “any aggressor and dishonest ruler.” “We pray because we have a big experience of the collapse of the Soviet empire. Prayer was active then as well. I was in Moscow at that time. Young Christians with flowers climbed the tanks saying to the soldiers that they have no right to shoot at their own people. I witnessed the protests of young people in Riga. Gorbachev was actually a pawn on the chessboard of God’s justice. Therefore, we call the faithful to active prayer. As the unpleasant smell of dictatorship is already penetrating each area of life. We can wake one morning to the fact that the state is already enslaved. Neither the people nor those calling themselves the leaders of the nation understand that,” said the bishop.

At the same time, Vasyl Boiechko expressed confidence that a dictatorship has no chance to be established in Ukraine despite the general indifference.