At the opening of the 11th plenary assembly of the World Council of Churches, German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier criticized the Russian Orthodox Church for supporting Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine.
This is reported by LB.ua with a link to DW.
The German president noted that the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church spreads propaganda that "arbitrarily declares God's will for the sake of imperial dreams of dictatorship rule."
He also added that the Russian Orthodox Church is following a "blasphemous wrong path."
Steinmeier recalled the carpet bombing of civilian targets, as well as war crimes and the destruction of religious sites in Ukraine, and stressed that "no Christian who still has faith, reason and feelings will be able to consider the will of God in this."
As previously reported, the Cabinet of Ministers approved proposals to apply personal sanctions against the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, and seven other representatives of the Russian Orthodox church.