"David P." <imbibe@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Ukrainian Clergy Say Russian Occupiers Target Them With Threats, Violence
> By Ian Lovett, Aug. 13, 2022, WSJ
>
> KROPYVNYTSKIY, Ukraine—The Russian soldiers who showed up at
> Rev. Sergey Chudinovich’s church put a bag over his head, took him to
> the police station, then made him an offer.
[…]
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrainian-clergy-say-russian-occupiers-target-them-with-threats-violence-11660377935

Do you post it here to make PRC look better in comparison?

Faith can be easily seen as a bold political declaration at the
occupied territories with Moscow Patriarchate and Kiev Patriarchate to
choose. Anyway it is not good enough as *sole* excuse for violence.
"Omitting" (misrepresenting) political aspect is plain stupid on long
run IMHO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine
> The church was united at the unification council in Kyiv on 15 December
> 2018 as a condition for recognition of it by the Ecumenical Patriarchate
> of Constantinople and was granted the tomos of autocephaly (decree of
> ecclesial independence) by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
> in Istanbul on 5 January 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_%E2%80%93_Kyiv_Patriarchate
> It merged into the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2018. In 2019, […]
> After its unilateral declaration of autocephaly in 1992, the
> patriarchate was not recognised by the other Eastern Orthodox
> churches, and was considered a "schismatic group" by the Moscow
> Patriarchate.[2][3]

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