President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko declared an attempt to break Orthodoxy in the country, transfers BelTA.
At the meeting with the clergy in the Zhirovichi men’s monastery, Lukashenko said that against the background of the pandemic of Coronavirus, Belorussia was trying to break and break. “Everything went to ensure that we disappear as the state and the people,” he noted.
According to Lukashenko, at first, the external forces had arranged a failed “blitzkrieg”, then began to flirt with the people using “flowers and other blasphemy.”
“Unfortunately, the temples were connected to this. There was an attempt to connect almost all Catholic, and many succumbed to it,” president.
Among the Orthodox were also “shutters”, but the church coped with this, continued Lukashenko. After that, against Belarus began an information attack and economic suffocation. “The last stage remained – intervention,” he noted.
“In this global confrontation there are separate episodes that are fundamental to the existence of the Belarusian nation. One of them – we have been observing lately, and with our Patriarch recently discussed this topic – this is an attempt to break Orthodoxy in Belarus,” Lukashenko said.
Opponents of Belarus are tested by a proven way, wanting to declare the AvtoFalia of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, the president said. “Letters went to Constantinople, to our Patriarch (he told me about it), and here we already see this turn,” said Lukashenko.
Earlier it was reported that the Synod of the Belarusian Orthodox Church was freed from the position of Archbishop of Grodno and Volkovysk Artemy, who supported the protest.