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The War in Ukraine: With the Blessing of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow

Patriarch Kirill and Vladimir Putin, in Moscow, here in 2012. (Illustration image) © Yana Lapikova/AP

By: Genevieve Delrue

1 min

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World Religions - Sunday, March 6, 2022 - 10:10 a.m. to 11 a.m. (Paris time)

On Sunday February 27, 2022, three days after the arrival of Russian troops in Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow called

those who fight against the historical unity of Russia and Ukraine "

forces of evil ".

Focus in this program on the justification of this war by the history of Russian Orthodoxy born in the Rus' of Kiev in 988 with the baptism of Vladimir The Great.

The Patriarch of Moscow did not digest in 2019 the autonomy of the Autocephalous Church of Ukraine when it placed itself under the authority of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, thus ending several centuries of Russian tutelage .

Analysis of the war started by Putin in Ukraine through the prism of religion, with our guest

Antoine Arjakovsky

, historian of the Orthodox faith. 

Director of research at the Collège des Bernardins, this specialist in ecumenism created the Institute of Ecumenical Studies in Lviv in 2004.

His latest works published by Cerf editions "

Metaphysics

of ecumenism"

 and "

What is ecumenism

?"

 offer a new vision of a discipline in its own right that goes far beyond the encounter between Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox. 

In this program, we will hear

Jean-François Colosimo

, specialist in orthodoxy and geopolitics of religions,

Samuel Lieven

who co-directed with Alice Cohen the documentary "

God Save Russia: the patriarch and the tsar" 

broadcast in 2018 on Arte ,

Cyprien Viet

of the Vatican agency I Medias and of Madagascar, 

Father

Pedro's appeal to Putin. 

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