Pope Francis condemns Ukraine's ban of Russian-linked Orthodox Church
Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the Ukraine government's ban of the Russian-linked Orthodox Church.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday signed a law barring religious groups with ties to Russia.
Zelensky said: "Ukrainian orthodoxy today is taking a step toward liberation from the devils of Moscow."
Mykyta Poturaiev, a Ukrainian member of Parliament who sponsored the bill, said: The Moscow Patriarchate is not an inspiration but a participant in the war."
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Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the Ukraine government's ban of the Russian-linked Orthodox Church.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday signed a law barring religious groups with ties to Russia.
Zelensky said: "Ukrainian orthodoxy today is taking a step toward liberation from the devils of Moscow."
Mykyta Poturaiev, a Ukrainian member of Parliament who sponsored the bill, said: The Moscow Patriarchate is not an inspiration but a participant in the war."
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
