Orthodox appeal to Bartholomew to condemn Kirill

The Russian Orthodox Archpriest Theodoor van der Voort cannot understand why the head of his Church, Patriarch Kirill, is supporting President Vladimir Putin in the war against Ukraine. "I got to know him as someone who has an eye for people. What is happening now is incomprehensible."

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) declared itself independent from the Moscow Patriarchate. That was the headline on Friday evening, also on CNE.news. Soon after that, questions rose: what does this mean? To be honest, nobody knows.

The war in Ukraine has not stopped the surrogacy industry. Children are being born, and since April, some clinics have restarted the search for mothers for rent.