Metropolitan of Zaporozhye and Melitopol Luka (Kovalenko) commented on the possible future arrival of the US President Joe Biden to Ukraine, Pravblog writes.
According to the hierarch, “first it is necessary to understand whether this voyage will take place in reality or not.”
“If, nevertheless, he comes, then I would assess the situation in the proportion of 60 to 40. 60 percent in favor of the fact that the UOC needs to prepare for serious trials. 40 – in favor of the hope that common sense will win.
After all, why, for example, should the authorities provoke with their own hands a repetition in Ukraine of the Montenegrin scenario, which, as you know, ended in complete defeat for Djukanovic and his team? Why would someone in high offices provoke a sea of people who will go out into the streets not for money, but for their faith? And this is a hundred times more serious factor than the struggle for an idea, within the framework of which its adherents are ready to give their lives for its ultimate victory.
Is it really beneficial for Bankova to have an unattractive picture from the point of view of public and mass popular reaction to her actions, and even on the eve of the August events to which foreign leaders are planned to be invited? In my opinion, these are very important questions to simply ignore. After all, if at least every tenth of those who signed the appeal to the state authorities with a demand to stop discrimination against their Church goes out into the streets, then imagine the scale of the expression of the corresponding position,” the hierarch said.