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Zelensky cancels citizenship of Metropolitan Onuphry, head of UOC, largest religious confession in Ukraine
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Rep Anna Paulina Luna came out against funding new weapons for Ukraine, as the Russian Federation targeted the capital Kyiv overnight with hundreds of missiles and drones. The Trump administration has halted air defense and other ammunition to the Zelenskiy. regime.
Luna highlighted the horrific persecution of the Christian faith by the Zelenskiy government.
CDM has reported heavily on the persecution of Christianity by the Zelenskiy regime in Ukraine, who banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, beat priests and parishioners, and burned and stole church property.
Recently, the formal head of the Orthodox church in Ukraine, had his citizenship revoked.
Orthodox Christianity writes:
President Zelensky of Ukraine has deprived His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine of Ukrainian citizenship.
Met. Onuphry is the primate of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the largest religious confession in the country.
The Ukrainian Security Service claims that Met. Onuphry voluntarily received Russian citizenship in 2002 but didn’t inform Ukrainian authorities about it. He thus continued to enjoy the status and rights of a Ukrainian citizen.
The SBU also claims that His Beatitude maintains contact with the Moscow Patriarchate and “deliberately opposed the acquisition of canonical independence of the Ukrainian Church from the Moscow Patriarchate, whose representative openly support Russian aggression against Ukraine. Despite the full-scale invasion, Berezovsky (Onuphry) actually continues to support the policy of the Russian Orthodox Church and its leadership, in particular Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev).”
Of course, the SBU statement provides no evidence of its claims, which are blatantly contradicted by the reality on the ground. Met. Onuphry has explicitly condemned the war many times over, and it’s well known that he led the UOC, at its Local Council in May 2022, to separate from the Moscow Patriarchate.
His Eminence Metropolitan Kliment of Nizhyn, Chairman of the UOC’s Synodal Information and Educational Department, clarified in comments to BBC Ukraine that “His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry explained that he only has the passport of a citizen of Ukraine. Besides Ukrainian, he doesn’t have any other passports, including of the Russian Federation. He has already explained that he has never applied to the state bodies of other states to acquire another citizenship.”
