Metropolitan Luke of Zaporizhzhya and Melitopol said during his sermon that the authorities will not be able to destroy the Church by any methods, even those used by the godless power of the Bolsheviks, because the Church is a God-human organism.

“First they resort to slander, then they use the levers of economic influence, and already in the end – physical destruction. If in the times of the godless power of the Bolsheviks these three methods were used simultaneously, today they are used in turn,” he said.

The bishop emphasized that the Church is the door through which people enter the Kingdom of God, “it cannot be destroyed and there are plenty of examples of this throughout its centuries-long history”.