Lavrov announced US attempts to create a non-canonical church in Belarus

Lavrov said this at the forum of modern journalism "All Russia - 2021".

“How serious, how substantiated are the statements that the Americans set out to undermine the position of world Orthodoxy?

We know this, and they don’t hide it too much, ”the minister said.

According to him, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople directly depends on the United States, "on those who work in different directions on American territory, including financially."

“This concerns not only Ukraine.

There is information that they are now trying to

create

the same non-canonical autocephalous church (as in Ukraine. -

) in Belarus, "he said.

Earlier, the foreign ministers of Russia and Belarus discussed international security issues.