Why International Institutions Overlook the Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church?

... erased. Ivan Timofeev: British Sanctions Against Patriarch Kirill. Forgiveness and Humility in Response 4) Arising from Western-centrism is yet another problem that can be crucial, if we assume a lack of adequate expertise and overall incompetence. International organizations have inadequate insights into Orthodoxy. What’s more, they do not realize their incompetence because their documents include Orthodoxy in the larger category of “Christianity.” They do not presume to encounter in Orthodoxy a qualitative (rather than geographical or chronological) alternative to what they know about Western denominations. Hence the judgments by way of analogy: about the Patriarch of Constantinople ...