Radicals with U.S. and Ukrainian flags attack cross procession, schismatic bishop approves (+VIDEO)

Nezhin, Ukraine, June 24, 2021

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A peaceful cross procession of the Orthodox Church with wonderworking icons and relics, in honor of St. John of Tobolsk, was violently interrupted by Ukrainian radicals with American and Ukrainian flags yesterday.

The provocateurs also brandished flags of the organization Right Sector—a well-known radical nationalist group that has often been involved in violently seizing churches from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The attackers uploaded video of the incident themselves, entitling it, “The Sabbath of the Moscow ‘church’ UOC FSB in Nezhin.” Ukrainian schismatics and nationalists routinely deny that the Ukrainian Church is administered by and for Ukrainians, instead accusing millions of their fellow Ukrainians of being agents of the FSB—the Russian Federal Security Service.

One “hierarch” of the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” approvingly commented on the video, calling for all UOC processions to be dealt with the same way.

As the video shows, the radicals stood in the way of the prayer procession with placards and flags, shouting obscenities and insisting that the Ukrainians leave their Ukrainian homeland. The group then provoked a fight with the participants in the procession by attacking priests and believers.

At least one participant’s clothing was completely torn up, notes the Union of Orthodox Journalists. They also broken a banner with an icon of Christ and stole the pectoral cross from a priest.

The woman shooting the video demanded to know why the UOC was holding a procession and also shouted obscenities and threats, including, “Death to our enemies!”

Police were present at the scene who tried to calm the radicals and break up the fighting.

The confrontation begins at about 6:30 in the video:

Dozens of participants in the cross procession have prepared an appeal to law enforcement and international monitoring organizations “about the commission of criminal offenses by a number of radical individuals,” reports the Nezhin Diocese.

Evidence of the beating of priests and women has been collected and documented.

Many of the radicals showed themselves to be mentally disturbed, the Diocese writes, noting that they began to scream incomprehensible sounds when the wonderworking icons appeared. One man even attacked the clergy and sacred objects with a severed hoof. Another threw feces at the icons.

Meanwhile, “Archbishop” Athanasy Shkurupy of Kharkov of the schismatic OCU commented on the video that if the Orthodox Church is not banned in Ukraine and such processions are not “harshly dispersed,” the Ukrainian state will soon be lost.

“Such ‘processions’ should be harshly dispersed, so there is no more desire to come out on the side of the enemy,” the schismatic writes.

He also denigrates his fellow Ukrainians, saying: “Our soldiers gave their lives for these lowlifes.”

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6/24/2021

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Comments
Illtyd9/30/2021 7:01 pm
Hmmm why is that one provocateur holding an American flag? Ukraine is a long ways from DC.... nah I'm sure the OCU schismatic farce is totally organic and in no way sponsored by Western powers.
David6/27/2021 3:25 pm
My "mindset" was kindness. I thought maybe you had personal ties to the region and a personal history with this tragedy. I am not your enemy. That you would treat me like one is another sad reflection of where this has led. There are many in the EP Churches who don't like what is going on (I believe the Tomos to be a tragic mistake). But we are not prepared to tear our communities apart over it, or spit condemnation at other Orthodox. We are all a part of the Church of Christ, and nobody has declared the contrary (not even the Moscow Patriarchate). I have taken up enough of everyone's time, I think. May the Lord bless you abundantly.
Johnathan6/27/2021 5:38 am
DAVID (NOT Johnathan, forgive the typo), the fact that you are assuming I am Ukrainian simply because I am grieved, saddened and disgusted over what is happening to my brothers and sisters in Christ is very telling of your mindset. I am not Ukrainian, nor am I Russian and to be honest, my ethnicity is not important. What is important, is that I am an Orthodox Christian and the saints of the church do not speak of ethnicity Or nationality, but of the “Christian Race”, which is in stark contrast to P. Bartholomew and his bishops constantly pushing helenic supremacy! I am a Christian and I am of the Christian race, and when my people are attacked (no matter what their ethnicity is) it pains me and hurts me, since the church is one body and no matter what part of that body is being attacked, it affects the whole of it. Have you not read the New Testament and the writings of St. Paul? How much do you know of church history? The false, robber council of Florence was also accepted by the Patriarch of Constantinople at that time, and he signed Orthodoxy over to the pope, but the reality was that God preserved His Church through Saint Mark of Ephesus. No matter how loud the patriarch and bishops who pledged allegiance to the pope screamed “WE ARE ONE WITH ROME AND HAVE THE SAME FAITH” the people of God and the true pastors of the church did not accept their treason. In this instance, no matter how much you try to legitimize these schismatics and heretics, we, the True Church of Christ will never ever accept them, even with your false data about the numbers. The reality is that the Holy Moscow Patriarchate is the true Church in Ukraine and the overwhelmingly vast majority of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine are under the Moscow Patriarchate. The schismatic group that you call “OCU” is a very very small group of ultra right wing, anti-Russian, Nazi sympathizers, and YOU KNOW THAT TO BE TRUE! Even now after the “tomos” and the support of the godless people that rule America and Ukraine, their numbers have grown minimally. After all, why would a true Orthodox Christian want to attend a church where “icons” depict images of Vladimir Putin being murdered or the double headed eagle of Holy Orthodox Russia being burned to the ground and stepped on by Nazis'? Or how about depicting people still yet living as saints? Also, if they are so big in number as you falsely claim them to be, why do they need to forcibly steal church buildings from the Orthodox Christians only to have them empty after they commit their thievery? Please please stop spreading the lies of the Patriarchete of Istanbul and his cronies. You and I both know these are pentagon issued talking points and complete lies, just like their lies about Iraq, Syria, Serbia and Cypress! All lies! I would advise you to pledge allegiance to Christ and His Church and not to a satanic shadow government, that is no longer so shadowy! Christ is King and may His enemies be scattered, and may all false Patriarchs, bishops and clergy be exposed!
Johnathan 6/26/2021 7:30 pm
Johnathan, the fact that you are assuming I am Ukrainian simply because I am grieved, saddened and disgusted over what is happening to my brothers and sisters in Christ is very telling of your mindset. I am not Ukrainian, nor am I Russian and to be honest,my ethnicity is not important. What is important is that I am an Orthodox Christian and the saints of the church do not speak of ethnicity Or nationality, but of the “Christian race”, which is in stark contrast to P. Bartholomew and his bishops constantly pushing helenic supremacy! I am a Christian and I am of the Christian race, and when my people are attacked (not matter what their ethnicity) it pains me and hurts me, since the church is one body and no matter what part of that body is attacked, it affects the whole of it. Have you not read the New Testament and the writings of St. Paul? How much do you know of church history? The false, robber council of Florence was also accepted by the Patriarch of Constantinople at that time, and he signed Orthodoxy over to the pope, but the reality was that God preserved His Church through Saint Mark of Ephesus. No matter how loud the patriarch and bishops who signed screamed “WE ARE ONE WITH ROME AND HAVE THE SAME FAITH” the people of God and the true pastors of the church did not accept. In this instance too, no matter how much you try to legitimize these schismatics and heretics, we, the True Church of Christ will never ever accept them, even with your false data about the numbers. The reality is that the Holy Moscow Patriarchate is the true Church in Ukraine and the overwhelmingly vast majority of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine are under the Moscow Patriarchate. The schismatic group that you call “OCU” is a very very small group of ultra right wing, anti-Russian, Nazi sympathizers, and YOU KNOW THAT TO BE TRUE! Even now after the “tomos” and the support of the godless people that rule America and Ukraine, their numbers have grown minimally. After all why would a true Orthodox Christian want to attend a church where “icons” depict images of Vladimir Putin being murdered or the double headed eagle of Holy Orthodox Russia being burned to the ground and stepped on by Nazis? Or how about depicting people still yet living as saints? Also, if they are so big in number as you falsely claim them to be, why do they need to forcibly steal church buildings from the Orthodox Christians only to have them empty after they commit their thievery? Please please stop spreading the lies of the Patriarchete of Istanbul and his cronies. You and I both know these are pentagon issued talking points and complete lies, just like their lies about Iraq, Syria, Serbia and Cypress! All lies! I would advise you to pledge allegiance to Christ and His Church and not a satanic shadow government, that is no longer so shadowy! Christ is King and may His enemies be scattered, and may all false Patriarchs, bishops and clergy be exposed!
David6/26/2021 5:35 am
Johnathan: I am not dismissing what happened at all. To attack a procession like that is demonic. My point, is that Eastern Europe has long been plagued by this sort of religious strife. This isn't the first desecration that has occurred and it won't be the last, sadly. You seem to be taking this very personally---are you Ukrainian? It was not my intention to offend you, forgive me, brother if I did so. It isn't backwardness, but the tragic result of centuries of geopolitical maneuvering (arbitrarily drawing lines on a map, with no regard of the consequences---we see the fruit of such arrogance and hubris in Africa and elsewhere). There are some nationalist malcontents in OCU, this cannot be denied. But you are failing to take into account the average OCU parishioners in other parts of Ukraine, who are just living their lives and are not involved in this stuff. What is their story? Nobody is asking, and nobody is saying (a glaring omission, considering that even using the most conservative estimates, they are as big as or slightly bigger than all of American Orthodoxy put together). It is tragic that we are in this position now as a Church, but I would humbly say to not forget Love. I pray for all Orthodox in Ukraine (and for all Ukrainians in general), no matter who their Bishop is----because we are in a bad way, and may it not be so much longer.
sherlock_holmes6/25/2021 8:47 pm
@ Johnathan...According to Elder Ephraim's prophecy ( and Saint Paisios ), pretty soon ,due to the global events to come, many people and People in Church will repent and we should pray for this, others will be removed in a way or another by God's providence. If the monasteries know this and many more other things that we don't , why should they hurry up and stir a fierce response that can affect the salvation of many.
Johnathan 6/25/2021 5:08 pm
Since when is truth falsely labeled “inflammatory rhetoric”? I personally believe that underhanded and deceitful comments which mislead people is not becoming for a Christian (?). Terrorist, anti-Christian attacks where icons are destroyed and churches are desecrated are not to be dismissed as “nonsense” and forgotten about. The attacks are one direction; they come from Bartholomew’s schismatic children against the true Church of Christ! The schismatics have become embolden since P. Bartholomew humbly and quickly obeyed his godless masters at the DOJ for 30 million dollars! Before they would make a small disturbance here and there, but now they desecrate icons, churches and altars. They attack priests, bishops and laity. People have been murdered, and abused by these heretics and false christians. How dare you dismiss this terrorism created by your idol (Bartholomew) as something normal, and imply that this is merely a result of Ukrainian backwardness? You sir are the backward one! Any culture, peoples or nations that create, support and encourage enmity towards the Church is de-facto anti-Christ! P. Bartholomew’s groupies are as delusional, as Obama was when he insanely labeled Islamic state terrorists as “freedom fighters”. Today his “defenders” come on platforms like this and falsely mislead people into thinking the schismatics in Ukraine are just “good Christian folk, wanting recognition” when nothing could be more further than the truth. Stop calling evil good and good evil, or stop calling yourself a Christian! Once again I would like to ask, and hope someone will give me a reasonable and acceptable answer: why do the monasteries who claim to have denied the entire world for Christ’s sake continue to remain under the “omophorion” of such a Judas, Who helps persecute Christ through His people, and preaches ecumenism and heresy? How can they justify kissing his blood soaked hands, and listening to his terrible teachings? When will they do the right, correct and courageous thing and leave this false Patriarchete? God forgive us all!
David6/25/2021 8:17 am
Reprehensible. Hopefully the police will find and prosecute those responsible (the Church is no doubt praying for them as well, as we all should). As for this being "the fruit of Patriarch Bartholomew," I would point out that this sort of nonsense was going on long before the Tomos. One can reject what the EP has done in Ukraine without resorting to such inflammatory rhetoric. A tragic mistake has been made, and it is the laity in both the UOC-MP and the OCU who are hurt most of all. Lord, have mercy.
Johnathan6/24/2021 10:27 pm
This is the fruit of Patriarch Bartholomew. The Christian blood on his hands is comparable to the Islamic terrorist groups in my opinion. This anti-Christian spirit manifesting through these godless Ukrainian nationalists is the same spirit in the false prophet Mohammed and the unholy Koran. Bartholomew gave birth to this enmity towards the Church in Ukraine and also kissed the Koran calling it “a holy book”. Shame on all the clergy and Patriarchetes that supported Bartholomew out of fear and greed! Shame! And here again I would like to ask; why do the monasteries under Elder Ephraim of blessed memory still remain under the godless enemy of the church Bartholomew? Why does mount Athos do the same ? Will you kiss the hand of Bartholomew when he comes to your monastic communities? Would you kiss the hand of Judas? God help and deliver us from these very confusing times, and may God give courage to the faithful laity and clergy to rise up against the false clergymen that have crept into the church unnoticed! God help us all!
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