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This is truly disgusting. That this filth can attack and desecrate Kiev Percherska Lavra, one lof the most holy sites of Holy Rus' is yet another indication that nothing is sacred any more and the human race is facing end times
Kiev
nationalists clash with police outside Orthodox monastery
Ukraine
nationalists have clashed with police outside the citadel of the
Orthodox Church in Kiev, the Pechersk Lavra, as the churchgoers and
monks were about to hold a peace service praying for an end to
violence in Ukraine
RT,
23
June, 2014
According
to various media reports up to 500 ultra-nationalists, representing
the Right Sector and Ukraine's Patriots neo-nazi movements, clashed
with around 100 policemen in an attempt to disrupt the Procession of
the Cross at one of the centers of the Eastern Orthodox monasticism
in Eastern Europe.
The
procession was supposed to start at noon local time in the Holy
Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and end up at the
monument of the Unknown Soldier. Participants in the rally, mostly
elderly, oppose Kiev's military operation in the Donetsk region.
Ultra-nationalists
claimed that “separatists” were
planning to use the event as a chance to gather and form a “Kiev's
People Republic” and
used a “few dozen
grandmas” to
disguise their plan
After
the armed ultra-nationalist crowd arrived at the gates of the
convent, the Lavra was forced to shut fearing clashes.
“After
the crowd of activists with baseball bats and hammers, some wearing
bulletproof vests arrived at the Lavra, the entrance and exit to the
shrine was closed.
According
to law enforcement, this was done to avoid clashes,” spokesman
for Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Fr. Georgiy Kovalenko shared his
account of the events surrounding the procession service on his
Facebook page..
The
clergy asked the angry mob – some of whom claimed they came to the
monastery “to pray” – to lay down their arms. But when asked to
cite a prayer, according to Kovalenko, they could not remember a
single one.
Around
250 people, some wearing St. George’s ribbons, were forced to seek
shelter and hold the procession inside the walls of the monastery,
while around 100 law enforcement officers secured the premises. It is
still unclear how many people were injured in the clashes outside the
walls of the monastery.
Kiev
Pechersk Lavra issued a statement after the incident saying that
according to Appeal Holy Synod, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church “as
always calls on all parties to the peaceful resolution of conflicts
and enhanced prayer.” It
reminded that the monastic life should not be disturbed or used for
political purposes.
After
the raid on the monastery around 60 nationalist activists staged a
rally at the Russian embassy in Kiev, Russia's Press Atache Oleg
Grishin said.
“The
gathered are behaving aggressively. They are trying to break through
the cordon of the consulate building, stoning representatives
Ukrainian law enforcement agencies,” RBK
quoted Grishin. “The
situation is tense,” the
diplomat added. No one was detained at the rally that lasted around
two hours.
Also
on Sunday, the nationalists vandalized a Kiev branch of Russia’s
Sberbank pelting cobble stones and throwing firecrackers inside.
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