“Ukraine violates the rule of law and human rights. Ukraine should never become member of the EU,” believes Marcel de Graaff, a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands.
“The clergy are subjected to brutal pressure through humiliating interrogations by special services, the pressure of an excited crowd, often uniting schismatics with the most exotic pagans and people who are generally alien to any faith,” the letter states.
Fr. Alexander Paramonov
Priest Alexander Paramonov resides and serves in an Australian town called Gold Coast. He answered our questions regarding his life and, together with his wife, matushka Leah, he told us what life is like for Christians in that remote corner of the world.
The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church has a much more active and healthier spiritual life than does the so-called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” which is frivolous and deluded and which was created by the misguided interference of Patriarch Bartholomew, believes Fr. Taras Petrunyak.
Hierarchs and Synods throughout the Orthodox Church have repeatedly spoken up in defense of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, which is currently facing serious persecution from state authorities.