Alexander Koval
In this situation the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will play the role of one of the “enemy’s” faces—an internal enemy upon which it is easiest to pour out all their rage; and by passing anti-church laws for the confiscation of churches from the faithful it is easy for the Russophobic portion of society to create an illusion of victory.
No one and nothing can cause fear in an Orthodox priest who, on the reverse of his first priestly cross, bears the words: Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity (1 Tim. 4:12).
Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
First of all, I want to thank you for becoming an instrument of God’s providence, thanks to which Christ grants our Ukrainian flock crowns of confession, and perhaps martyrdom.
Pavel Darovsky
The “Patriarchal Ecumenical Throne” of Constantinople is declared as the head of the Church, and not the Lord Jesus Christ, who is merely called the “Founder” of the Church. This carries already not only canonical, but also critical dogmatic significance.
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
Perhaps never before have the elections in the United States been so fraught with passions and division. The country has not been so ideologically divided since the American Civil War. Perhaps for Orthodox Christians, very much is a stake. We don’t know what the future will bring, but we are very concerned about the thinly-veiled anti-Christian, aggressively liberal convictions now wafting in our air, across our plains and majestic mountains, from sea to shining sea.