Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church believes it is important for the church to distance itself from involvement in the conflicts taking place in Ukraine, and focus on prayer ministry. He compared the situation in the country to 1917.
“Most of us can’t even imagine what a revolution is. Recent developments in Ukraine, terrible images of revolutionary rebellion in the capital, victims, people with confused hearts and minds – all of this helps us understand to a certain extent what was happening at that time in Russia,” the patriarch said in the Donskoy Monastery.
“It was a turning point, accompanied by atrocities in the name of achieving justice, and our people greatly suffered,” said the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The patriarch expressed hope that in the “crucial time for the Fatherland, brothers will not rebel against brothers in order to gradually gather the spiritual force of Rus – the same force that led to the creation of a great power,” ITAR-TASS reports.