Yefremenko<\/a> wrote about this on Facebook.<\/p>\n“It seemed that in such a tragic time for our country there can be not the slightest place or even a drop of hypocrisy, but no. This has become so ingrained in the nature of certain \u2018high-ranking\u2019 clergy that even war can\u2019t rid them of hypocrisy, cynicism, and cunning. A striking example of all this is the recent Facebook post by one of the main mouthpieces of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Mykola Danylevych, in which he accused the OCU of looting and, again, seizing churches!\u201d Yefremenko said.<\/p>\n
He stressed that there was no letter on Father Mykola\u2019s page condemning the crimes of the Russian occupiers that led to the destruction of temples run by the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
“He is not outraged or condemned by the behavior of the ROC leader \u2013 his sermons and blessings to kill Ukrainians,” said the religious pundit.<\/p>\n
“Probably, neither Father Mykola nor his clergy is worried about this. What is more important to them is how the \u2018schismatics\u2019 are seizing the temples in the rear. According to him, the OCU sows \u2018enmity and division on religious grounds.\u2019 Just think about it: the OCU is sowing discord and enmity. Not Russian missiles and Gundyaev’s sermons, but the OCU!\u201d Yefremenko concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Archpriest Mykola Danylevych, a spokesman for the UOC-Moscow Patriarchate, is not outraged that Russian troops have destroyed dozens of churches with the blessing of ROC Patriarch Cyril Gundyaev. There is no post on his Facebook page condemning the war. Instead, he focused on the alleged “seizures” of churches by OCU believers. According to the UOC-MP, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92787,"comment_status":"closed","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":[5151,5149,5153],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-en","8":"category-opinions","9":"category-top-en"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/danilevich.jpg?fit=1097%2C641&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92786","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}