"Successive Tsars imposed their will on the Church, transforming it into a mere instrument for their strategic objectives… #putin’s russia simply renewed and accentuated this “tradition.”
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"Of special importance in this respect is #Panslavism, the ideology according to which all Slavs should be united under Moscow. This XIX century deeply racist ideology found its religious expression in ethnophyletism, condemned as a heresy by the Great Council of Const. in 1872.”
“The present incarnation of ethnophyletism is the fundamentalist ideology of #Russkii mir, the “#russian world.” This expression describes a supposed sphere of civilization including russia, Ukraine, Belarus as well as ethnic russians all around the world,
politically and religiously led and directed by the Moscow center. The “russian world” is presented as the answer to the “corrupt West.” This ideology is the main instrument for a “spiritual” legitimation of the invasion in Ukraine.”
“The Church and the State leadership in russia cooperated in the crime of aggression, and share the responsibility for the resulting crimes, like the shocking abduction of Ukrainian children.”
“Our inter-religious dialogue has to focus not only on ways to resist to and neutralize the capacity of the leadership of the moscow patriarchate to undermine unity and to theologically legitimize criminal behavior.
It is our common Christian duty to use our forces of dialogue to bring back our russian brothers and sisters to our community of shared values.”
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