Kiev, December 10, 2013
Specifically, a video has appeared online in which priests, accompanied by shouts of "Ganba" ("Shame") from a crowd, are trying to "lynch" the opponents of the “European Maidan” movement (named after the main square in Kiev, where protests are being held), and they were defended by the police.
During the last ten days of November, when the idea of EU Maidan was being formed, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests in all churches and seminaries were leading a campaign, agitating the faithful to go to Kiev, reported a source in the Ukraine close to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to a spokesperson of Interfax-Religion on Tuesday.
"At the same time, an accurate plan of action at the Maidan was developed—what to say and how to say it, and what to do with the opposition in order to suppress alternative calls for negotiations with the authorities. The main object is to facilitate the change of power. The priests are still pressuring the believers to go to Kiev, although all the legal ways to solve the problems of the Maidan have been exhausted," said the agency's spokesperson.
Lately a reel on the YOUtube website provoked a broad response, where the Greek Catholic priest Michael Arsenych from the Ivano-Frankivsk region called in his sermon literally to lead "a conversation of bullets" with the opponents of the EU integration.
