Patriarch Kirill calls on Pope Francis, UN chief to protect Kiev-Pechersk Lavra abbot
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This decision of the court, which is unjust and obviously imposed by the Ukrainian authorities, is aimed at intimidating believers, coercing them to stop defending their religious freedom and holy places, and it is part of the large-scale persecution unleashed by the Ukrainian authorities against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill said