R.P.Ts. EXARCH IN BELARUS BELIEVES THE UNITY OF RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN, AND BELORUSSIAN PEOPLES
Religiina Pravda, 11 January 2022
Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl Veniamin, the exarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (RPTs) in Belarus, considers that Russia, Belorussia, and Ukraine will return to unity. He explained this in an interview on the ONT [National TV of Belarus] television channel, which was posted on the website of the RPTs.
He said that these three peoples "have spiritual unity."
"Our fraternal peoples still have spiritual
unity, but
within the framework of political reality we see division,
serious division,
which evokes natural sorrow, but at the same time we recognize
that, having
such a good foundation on which our states are constructed, we
can and we must
restore the unity of our countries and three peoples. And there
are the
testimonies of the holy fathers, who spoke about the coming
division among our
three countries but subsequently all will be returned to unity,"
the
representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus said.
(tr. by PDS,
posted 11 January 2022)
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