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How Putin weaponised the Russian Orthodox church

How Putin weaponised the Russian Orthodox church

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

In the week before Orthodox Lent began, some 233 RussianOrthodox priests published a petition calling for peace. The signatories spokeof the ‘fratricidal war in Ukraine’, with a call for an immediate ceasefire,and deplored ‘the trial that our brothers and sisters in Ukraine wereundeservedly subjected to’. Anyone who knows how authority is exercised in theRussian Orthodox church, and how closely it has allied itself with Putin’sauthoritarian state, will recognise the clerics’ courage.

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Fr. Mark Drew is a priest serving in the Archdiocese of Liverpool.

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