Some deceitful (and here I have a few more characteristics, but all of them are negative, so I will not) Facebook pages and sites spread information that as if I said that we will bring 20 million (people) to the streets of cities as a sign protest against the renaming of the UOC. Lie more carefully, writes Deputy Head of the Department for External Church Relations of the UOC Archpriest Nikolai Danilevich.

“Watch my broadcasts carefully!

This was discussed on the air on the “First Cossack” YouTube channel.

I was talking about Montenegro, where, with a population of 600,000, about 300,000 took to the streets. That is, half of the population of that small country. Accordingly, if you look at the proportions, then we should have 20 million, that is, half of the country’s population. But, I noticed that in Montenegro people are more ecclesiastical and organized than ours. Therefore, since, according to my calculations, about 2 million people pray every Sunday in the churches of the UOC throughout the country, approximately this number can come out to defend the Church. Roughly 2 million, not 20.

Here is my direct speech:

“We were pleasantly surprised by the reaction of the Orthodox in Montenegro. Imagine: half of the population of Montenegro took to the streets of cities and villages. streets of cities. In this regard, they are more cohesive, more churchly. We will also come out a lot. Every Sunday, about 2 million people visit our churches, at least on major holidays and more. I think that the streets of cities can take about the same the number of people, if necessary. ”

So, “The Spiritual Front of Ukraine”, lie more carefully.

It is interesting that one Ternopil site also swallowed this lie, but still more realistically tried to count all our believers, and this is what he wrote:

“According to the latest polls, out of 41.6 million citizens (as of 12/01/2020), only 13.8% identify themselves as believers of the UOC-MP, and this is a little more than 5.5 million people.”

That is, even opponents unwittingly point out that there are many of us. Modestly speaking”, writes UOC speaker.