For several years, an organized campaign of discrimination and libel against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and millions of its parishioners has been going on in Ukraine. Metropolitan Feodosiy of Cherkasy and Kanev said this in an interview with 112 Ukraine TV channel, writes For-ua.

According to the hierarch, this campaign involves not only the media and radical groups, but often also government bodies.

“There is a systematic discriminatory and slanderous campaign against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, against millions of believers – starting with His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, bishops, priests, monks and up to a simple rural parishioner who does not want to betray her faith at the end of her life,” said Metropolitan Theodosius.

He said that now Ternopil, Lvov, Rivne, Sarny, Lutsk, Vinnitsa and Mogilev-Podolsk dioceses of the UOC are under attack, where raider seizures of churches by OCU activists are taking place with the assistance of local authorities.