Expert: believers must line up around the UOC in Cross Procession-2016

In this hard time the mission of the Cross Procession is that Good gains victory over Evil. Faith is a moral category, and particular civil servants have no right to interfere into the Church matters and manipulate with people. It was reported by Ukrainian politician, deputy, member of the Supreme Justice Council Valeriy Bondik in the live UOJ Telethon on All-Ukrainian Cross Procession-2016.   

“It’s a horrible thing when certain functionaries try to interfere and rearrange what has been established and long-standing. A real disgrace is church raiding. For the people are often managed by somebody’s vested interests. One shouldn’t manipulate people for personal gain. We should line up and respond to evil with good deeds”, underscored the lawyer.  

Valeriy Bondik thinks the attempts of particular civil servants to adopt discrimination-based draft laws with regard to the Church will lead to failure. “The Church has existed and will exist despite the futile efforts of those individuals to change something. The Church is over 2000 thousand years and there is no shaking our faith. The Church is certain to withstand. All these anti-Church endeavors are carnal-minded”, he said.   

“The recent Pan-Orthodox Council was a good proof to that. It gave the right response. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is forever. And those who try to stand out in the history of Ukraine by adopting the notorious draft laws are doomed to fiasco. Faith cannot be destroyed: it’s a part of human nature”, concluded the expert.  

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