Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill urged Russians to be united and ready to serve the authorities of the country until the position of their lives. He stated this in his Sunday sermon in Moscow..

“May the Lord help us all in this difficult time for our Fatherland to unite, including around the authorities, and the authorities to be filled with responsibility for their people, humility and readiness to serve them even to the point of their life,” he said..

Kirill believes that this will be a sign of “genuine solidarity”, which will “arrange life in such a way that there is as much goodness, truth and love as possible in this life”.

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Recall that a trusted ally of Vladimir Putin, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, refused to condemn the Kremlin’s decision to invade Ukraine and called Russia’s opponents in Ukraine an “evil force”. In his Sunday sermon before Lent, he said that one of the reasons for the war in Ukraine was gay parades organized in the West..

As for the head of the UOC-MP Metropolitan Onufry, on the first day of the war he called on the President of the aggressor country Vladimir Putin to immediately stop the " However, he did not condemn Cyril and continues to mention him in prayers..

Recall that a bill was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to ban the activities of the Moscow Patriarchate on the territory of the country. The bill proposes to ban the activities in Ukraine of the Russian Orthodox Church and religious organizations that are part of it, in particular, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the MP, and all property of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine should be nationalized.