Metropolitan Dymytrii (Rudiuk) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate is “surprised at the raising of the question of biometric passports in the Ukrainian society,” for, according to him, such documents exist not in all the countries of the Western Europe.
“I think some very mercantile interest is involved in this; someone wished to count the population of Ukraine specifically by means of the biometric passports. For it is about issuance of biometric passports to newborn children,” commented Metropolitan Dymytrii (Rudiuk) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate.
He is convinced that many people do not even know what it is. “All the information about the person will be entered in the biometric passport. Actually, one should talk here on the subject of the end of the world. For the Church has a certain vision of how it is going to happen. The first indication will be the reign of one person, the antichrist, the person who will rule the world and will try to count the people and issue to them passports or chips containing all the information about them. However, the Church always warns that man was created free, and this is an encroachment on the freedom and indication of total control. The Church is against the total control over man,” stated Bishop Dymytrii.