Lithuanian Prime Minister: Orthodox Church Lithuania should secede from Moscow Patriarchate

Authorities in the Ukrainian region Lviv have forbidden the activities of the Moscow-oriented part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The Boryslav City Council has banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. It calls the decision historic.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban says he will block any European attempt to sanction Patriarch Kirill. He said so during a meeting with Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem II of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Budapest. Earlier the Patriarch had approached the Prime Minister with the request to do so. The European Union proposed to subject the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to sanctions in light of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.