UOC defamation on Ukrainian TV channel
April 19, 2017 – A Ukrainian media personality claimed that services in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) are are performed in the “Russian language”. It was claimed on air of Lviv TV channel Zik by political expert Oles Doniy who had apparently mixed it up with the Old-Slavic language.
The political expert told that there is a Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) on the estate of the President which he “saw with his own eyes,” he affirmed.
Doniy called on Members of Parliament and civil servants to boycott the UOC-MP and thus to show “their own example” to the faithful who are unwilling to make a transition to other confessions.
“Currently they have (UOC-MP – Ed.) 50% registered communities out of the total quantity of Orthodox communities. This is a huge number. They are also available in Western Ukraine. Following the aggression over 70% left the UOC-MP denomination. It is about 10 thousand communities,” admitted the expert.
Earlier the UOC-MP Primate His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and all Ukraine explained “we have services both in the Church-Slavic and Ukrainian languages. The vast majority of services are being conducted in Church Slavonic. This is the primary language of prayer. In our state there are regions where Ukrainian is spoken as native and other regions where Russian is dominated. As for the Old Church-Slavic language, it integrates all parts of our state.”
Sources
http://uoj.org.ua/novosti/sobytiya/gnobitel-upts-ne-otlichaet-russkiy-yazyk-ot-tserkovnoslavyanskogo