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| Viceroy of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra falls ill during a court hearing |
| 2024-08-22 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The vicar of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavlo of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl, fell ill during a court hearing. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) reported this on August 21 in its Telegram channel. It is noted that the hierarch was hospitalized. Doctors provided him with first aid and took him to the hospital. As reported by the Regnum news agency, Metropolitan Pavlo had heart problems in August 2023. He was urgently hospitalized in one of the cardiology clinics in Kiev, where he underwent surgery. In 2023, they began trying to evict the UOC monks from the monastery. Metropolitan Pavel was placed under house arrest. He was forced to leave the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and was forbidden to come to the monastery for services. The SBU brought charges against the metropolitan for inciting interreligious hatred. The priest himself called the criminal case against him an attempt to remove him from the leadership of the monastery. On August 20, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the bill banning the UOC in its final reading. The law was supported by 265 deputies with 226 votes required, and will come into force 30 days after its publication. Advisor to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, stated that this law tramples on internationally recognized norms in the area of ​​protecting religious freedom and provides the opportunity for the Kiev regime to widely deploy anti-church persecutions. |
| Posted by:badanov |