Kirill justifies the invasion of Ukraine as a crusade against «a gay parade«
In a sermon delivered on Sunday, the patriarch of Moscow, Kirilljustified the war Ukraine after what "for eight years there have been attempts to destroy what exists in the Donbass«, the Ukrainian zone in which two self-proclaimed pro-Russian republics are settled, «where there is a fundamental rejection of the so-called values that are offered today by those who claim world power«. «The invasion of Ukraine? It's right to fight, it's a war on the gay lobbysaid the patriarch.
Kirill described the Gay pride as a turning point between good and evil: “We are talking about something that goes beyond political convictions. Let's talk about human salvation. We are in a war that has acquired a metaphysical meaning. Gay marches show that sin is a variable of human behavior. This war is against those who support homosexuals, like the western world, and has tried to destroy Donbass only because this land is opposed to a fundamental rejection of the so-called values offered by those who pretend to world power".
Relations with Putin
His increasingly close relationship with Vladimir Putin it has disrupted its mission, as many religious have long complained. It is as if in compliance with the will of the Kremlin, the Russian Church would have accepted a gradual return to silent assent and nothing more. Putin's views on homosexuality, drugs and vaccines are what resonate in the patriarch's speeches. La Kazan Cathedral in the Red Square it is the symbol of this profound understanding.
The religious question in Ukraine is very complicated. The loyals orthodox of the Churches of Moscow and Kiev exceed the 140 million, out of a total of 220 in the world. In 2018, a historical schism occurred that led to the creation of the Ukrainian Church. The decision of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople of recognizing Kiev as an autocephalous Patriarchate, has further poisoned relations between the various branches of the Orthodox. Inside Ukraine, the situation is also complex. Most of the 41 million Ukrainians are Orthodox, but they are divided into three sectors: that which is still linked to the Patriarch of Moscow, that of the new national Church of Ukraine, and that which was already autocephalous prior to the diaspora. The country also has a significant Catholic minority, non-Latin rite but united to Rome, which reaches up to 10 percent of the population.
