RF MFA: US put pressure on hierarchs of Cyprus and Greece to recognize OCU
Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Photo: mid.ru
US representatives put pressure on the hierarchy of the Cypriot and Greek Orthodox Churches so that they recognized the Ukrainian schismatics, said Russian Foreign Ministry official Maria Zakharova at a briefing.
Zakharova expressed surprise at the persistent promotion of the OCU by US representatives.
“It is a strange interest for a secular state, which is thousands of kilometres from Ukraine, does not have such historical, spiritual and cultural ties with it as Russia, and the Orthodox in it make up only about 2% of the country's population,” the diplomat said.
As reported by the UOJ, recently the US Ambassador to Greece accused the ROC of a split in world Orthodoxy and said that supporting the Phanar is a matter of America's national security.
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