The Kirill Patriarch is challenged by representatives of other Christian churches that blame him without shade support in the war in Ukraine.
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At the last moment, Father Maxim Politov, a priest of the monumental Russian Orthodox cathedral of the Holy Trinity, in Paris, did not show up at the rendezvous. Contrary to what had been agreed, it was the Irenaeée, one of his collaborators, who received, Thursday, March 10, the President of the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF), Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, and the President From the Protestant Federation of France (FPF), François Clavairoly. Last week, the two Christian representatives had agreed to give him together the letter that each of them wrote to the Kirill Patriarch, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Their host has promised that these missives would be given to their recipient.
The objective of this initiative, indicated the CEF statement, was to challenge the patriarch “on the importance of its responsibility in this conflict”. “It is necessary [the] to help fulfill the historical role that must be his, invite him to fulfill his role as Bishop of Christ, who is to prepare peace,” says Eric de Moulins-Beaufort. The last homilies of Kirill were at the origin of this joint initiative, says François Clavairoly.
Since the triggering of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, the patriarch has been illustrated by sermons mixing religion and political, in which he supports the military offensive of Moscow without shading, the dying of mystic-civilizational colors. Wednesday, March 9, he devoted his preaching to the thesis that Russians, Ukrainians and Belarus are the components of “one people” that malicious neighbors seek to divide. “They are against our unity, against our spiritual roots and therefore, that they say believers or not believers, they are against the will of God,” he said.
Three days earlier, he had devoted his homily to the inhabitants of Donbass who, despite “eight years of repression and extermination”, reject “the supposed values proposed today by those who claim to be global power” And whose symbol is, according to him, “the gay pride”: “Organize a gay pride is a test of loyalty to this very powerful world.” “What’s going on today in the sphere of international relations is not only of politics, he said. This is something else and much more important. This is the salvation of man “and a” metaphysical struggle “.
Influence with Putin
From the beginning of the Russian invasion, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort had written in Hilarion, the metropolitan in charge of the international relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, met in Paris a few days before, to “regret the aggression” and “maintain The relationship with the Russians “. “We must notage the war, affirms the Archbishop of Reims. The war between two political entities is never the war between good and evil.”
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