{"id":214569,"date":"2025-02-05T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=214569"},"modified":"2025-02-07T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:54:48","slug":"zelensky-on-moscow-patriarchate-for-decades-they-ve-been-glorifying-war-and-justifying-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2025\/02\/05\/zelensky-on-moscow-patriarchate-for-decades-they-ve-been-glorifying-war-and-justifying-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky on Moscow Patriarchate: \u201cFor decades, they\u2019ve been glorifying war and justifying aggression\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine will no longer allow the UOC (MP) to serve as an instrument of Russian influence.<\/p>\n

This was stated by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview<\/a> with British journalist Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n

Zelensky emphasized that a church that supports the ideology of the \u201cRussian world\u201d shall have no place in an independent state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Moscow Patriarchate is not about faith, it is about politics. They have worked for the Kremlin for decades, spreading pro-Russian narratives, glorifying the war and justifying aggression. We cannot allow a structure to operate in Ukraine that is actually part of the Russian propaganda machine,\u201d the president explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukraine will no longer allow the UOC (MP) to serve as an instrument of Russian influence. This was stated by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan. Zelensky emphasized that a church that supports the ideology of the \u201cRussian world\u201d shall have no place in an independent state. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":214416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5148,5142],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-214569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-church-en","8":"category-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/d77dd2dc73827c24b61f70003301c3a8.webp?fit=1036%2C648&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214570,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214569\/revisions\/214570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}