Why International Institutions Overlook the Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church?
... become almost a part of the US foreign policy doctrine [ 4 ]), and about local Orthodox churches as similar to national Protestant churches whose territorial boundaries automatically change every time state borders change. And while non-Christian Eastern religions have long since become part of Western popular culture [ 5 ], albeit often in the form of a lightly-built new-age narrative, this is not the case with Orthodox Christianity, nor is it even possible. In the Ukrainian ecclesiastical matters, it is difficult to explain to non-Orthodox people (and sometimes even to Orthodox believers who do not know their heritage well enough) in legal terms why so much importance ...