To hear Moscow propagandists talk, you would think that the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine in combination with the Ukrainian government would use Gestapo-type tactics to suppress all congregations there now affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate through the UOC MP.
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Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, prays during a ceremony for the signing of the "Tomos" decree of autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at the Patriarchal Church of St George in Istanbul on Jan. 5, 2019.