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On May 6, the Estonian Riigikogu approved the statement”On Declaring the Moscow Patriarchate an Institution Sponsoring the Military Aggression of the Russian Federation”.
This was reported by ERR.
“The leaders of the Moscow Patriarchate and Patriarch Kirill are using the ‘Russian World’ ideology as a tool to promote the war; it is being utilized to destroy the last manifestations of Russian democracy, militarize Russian society and justify the aggression in order to expand the Russian Federation to all of the territories dominated by it in the past, including Ukraine,” reads the statement by the Riigikogu.
The lawmakers agreed that the Moscow Patriarchate brings “inherent danger to Estonia’s security and survival, including a direct threat to the public and constitutional order in Estonia”.
Estonia’s decision, supported by 75 members of the parliament, only addresses the Moscow Patriarchate, not the people who follow orthodox traditions.
Just like in Ukraine, there are two separate Orthodox churches in Estonia, the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPEÕK) and Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (EAÕK) under the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the legal continuation of the Estonian Orthodox Church (EÕK).
In March, the Russian Orthodox Church declared the Russian invasion of Ukraine “a Holy War in which Russia and its people, defending the single spiritual space of Holy Russia, fulfil the mission of the Restrainer, who protects the world against the onslaught of globalism and the victory of the West, which has fallen into Satanism”.
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