{"id":248063,"date":"2022-10-27T18:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/?p=248063"},"modified":"2022-10-31T21:39:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:39:26","slug":"%d0%b1%d0%be%d0%b3-%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%b8%d0%bd-%d0%bd%d0%be-%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d1%8c-%d0%bd%d1%8e%d0%b0%d0%bd%d1%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/en\/publication\/248063\/","title":{"rendered":"There is one God and only one \u201cright\u201d church\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><b>Russian invaders ban \u201cwrong\u201d religious organizations in occupied Melitopol. They seize premises of churches and force priests to leave. Only one confession feels itself safely on occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region. It is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate\u2026<\/b><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before full scale Russian invasion, Melitopol residents were proud of their intercultural nature and tolerance towards any religious confessions. Almost all key world religions were present in the city with 150\u00a0000 inhabitants. Christian denominations had the largest number of believers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orthodox, Greek Catholics and Roman Catholics, Baptists, adherents of Yehovah\u2019s Witnesses or charismatic movement\u2026 There were hundreds of churches and prayer houses\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today the majority of religious organizations were forced to shut down their services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost daily meetings supporting Ukraine were held in the central square of Melitopol in February \u2013 March 2022. Besides that, believers of different denominations conducted joint prayers every Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe city is occupied whereas dozens of people sing \u201cGreat God, protect our Ukraine\u201d in the central city square. No doubt, occupants did not like it\u201d, as Mykhailo Britsyn, presbyter of church \u201cGrace\u201d, recalls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prayer house of this church was seized by occupants on September 11. Armed soldiers entered the house during the service and stopped it. They took passport data or even fingerprints from believers. They told the church received financing from the USA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persecution of priests, searches in churches and homes of heads of religious organizations of Melitopol area started in March 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russian occupants detained Dmytro Bodia, pastor of evangelical church \u201cThe Word of Life\u201d, for more than a week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around ten occupants broke into the home of Bodia\u2019s family in the Saturday morning on March 19. They asked pastor whether he was a US citizen and took him away. They also confiscated all mobile phones from his family members. That is why his relatives were unable to report immediately about his abduction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After his release occupants recommended \\ ordered him to leave the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mykola Zholovan, the head of the church of evangelical Christian Baptists in Vasylivka village, was abducted on June 18, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occupants abducted Valentyn Zhuravlov, pastor of church \u201cThe Source of Life\u201d, during his service in Melitopol on the same day (the CJI <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/ua\/news-2\/244047\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about it). Armed Russian military approached believers during joint prayer in Victory Square and took away Zhuravlov (he has been co-organizer of the prayer).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_244048\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244048\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-244048\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/valentyn_zhuravlev.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/valentyn_zhuravlev.png 996w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/valentyn_zhuravlev-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/valentyn_zhuravlev-768x446.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-244048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Valentyn Zhuravlov, pastor of church \u201cThe Source of Life\u201d. Photo: Facebook\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today the pastor resides in the city under the condition he will not conduct prayers and services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occupation administration confiscated the house of Melitopol Christian Church in August.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The house is located at the entrance to Melitopol from Berdyansk side. It is immense: with a pool, concert hall, after modern renovation. The surrounding territory is well maintained with palms, a fountain and a green lawn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9 meters high cross stood in front of the church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invaders demolished the cross and put Russian flag.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After confiscation, the church premises were used by the Russian military. \u201cWe drove by and saw their soldiers in a courtyard, under palms, talking over phone\u201d, as local residents told.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today so-called \u201cministry of youth policy\u201d is situated in the church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concert hall is used by occupation authorities for propaganda events. For example, the concert of propaganda group \u201cPosleZavtra\u201d with Russian flags and Z symbols was held there on the day of liberation of Melitopol from German Nazi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_248064\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248064\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-248064\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/propagandysty_grupa_poslezavtra_melitopol.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/propagandysty_grupa_poslezavtra_melitopol.png 796w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/propagandysty_grupa_poslezavtra_melitopol-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/propagandysty_grupa_poslezavtra_melitopol-768x453.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-248064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Concert of Russian propaganda group \u201cPosleZavttra\u201d in the concert hall of Melitopol Christian Church confiscated by occupants, 23.10.2022. Photo: t.me\/svoboda_mlt<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An area of private houses, owned by believers of the church, is located next to the premises of the Melitopol Christian Church. Russian military seized them and settled in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The house of Viktor Sergeev, senior pastor of the Melitopol Christian Church, was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02bim7bx3V9TmKiPKMf8KyrKnzdnscR5WFUHGX2iej4Us6RKHnJyuvBzfMgUXZz21Tl&amp;id=100000971344164\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">demonstrated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Russian TV propagandists. They declared they found there a box with weapons: grenades, flares and a rope for simple mines.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI talked with invaders during the first days of occupation. Russian soldiers persuaded us that there was nothing to worry about as their goal was to seize Kyiv. However, they came with searches to our church and homes in a three weeks\u201d, as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02DEuLc1BWrsJJugu2Nck7pLvYSiJesmduNDqWNWrQt9mVnBgs5h8Kf7XJCTm7o2xCl&amp;id=100000971344164\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Viktor Sergeev told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said that officers of the Russian Federal Security Service interrogated him and asked about sources of church income, pastor\u2019s attitude towards city mayor and leaders of the country and proposed to record video with him demonstrating the believers\u2019 joy about Russian invasion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_248069\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248069\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-248069\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pastor_viktor_sergeev.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pastor_viktor_sergeev.png 1084w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pastor_viktor_sergeev-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pastor_viktor_sergeev-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pastor_viktor_sergeev-1024x585.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-248069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Viktor Sergeev, pastor of the Melitopol Christian Church. Photo: facebook.com\/gogunsky<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No believers agreed to cooperate with occupants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occupants put forward the following accusations against this religious community. Before 2021 it has been registered as Melitopol Christian Church \u201cNew Generation\u201d. The Office of the Russian General Prosecutor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/genprocrf\/1222\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recognized<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the Spiritual Department of Evangelical Christians of the Ukrainian Christian Church \u201cNew Generation\u201d was unwanted on the territory of Russia in August 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second accusation is that the religious community provides financial support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was not funny to see how they found weapons in my house. Because Russian soldiers lived in my house for several months\u201d, as a pastor explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After interrogations Viktor Sergeev with his family left immediately the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russian occupants ban the work of large as well as small religious communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evening services of evangelical Christian Baptists in Chkalove village of Melitopol district were interrupted by Russian military on September 22, 2022. They came and told believers that \u201cafter referendum you will be expelled because we\u2019ve got only one religion \u2013 Orthodox\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_248065\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248065\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-248065\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/budynok_molytvy_xrystyyan-babtystiv_chkalove_melitopolskiy_r-n.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/budynok_molytvy_xrystyyan-babtystiv_chkalove_melitopolskiy_r-n.png 827w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/budynok_molytvy_xrystyyan-babtystiv_chkalove_melitopolskiy_r-n-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/budynok_molytvy_xrystyyan-babtystiv_chkalove_melitopolskiy_r-n-768x479.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-248065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Prayer house of evangelical Christian Baptists in Chkalove village, Melitopol district. Photo: Facebook Andreas Patz<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of now, pastors of the largest protestant churches of Melitopol area left occupied territory. Church services are forbidden. Believers go to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government or leave the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protestants are not the only target of Russian repressions. It was reported that Sviatoslav (Pitersky), the archpriest of St Andrew church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, was expelled by Russian occupants from the occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia oblast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He refused to receive passport of the Russian citizen and to recognize results of \u201creferendum\u201d as well as occupation authorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am too old to change passports\u201d, as the priest openly declared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_248067\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248067\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-248067\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/okupanty_deportuyut_z-_melitopolya_protoiereya_upc_svyatoslava_piterskogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/okupanty_deportuyut_z-_melitopolya_protoiereya_upc_svyatoslava_piterskogo.png 795w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/okupanty_deportuyut_z-_melitopolya_protoiereya_upc_svyatoslava_piterskogo-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/okupanty_deportuyut_z-_melitopolya_protoiereya_upc_svyatoslava_piterskogo-768x476.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-248067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Russian military deport Sviatoslav (Pitersky), the archpriest of St Andrew church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, from occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia oblast. Photo: propaganda telegram channel\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several priests of churches from the former Kyiv Patriarchate and now the Orthodox Church of Ukraine left the city during the first days of occupation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russian occupants visited Greek Catholic parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They recommended parish members to receive Russian passports if they would like \u201cto work without problems\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only one church does not suffer from Russian repressions. It is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate and its priests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was expected that dean of Moscow Patriarchate churches in Melitopol Maksym (Smyrnov) would cooperate with occupants as Melitopol became \u201cthe capital\u201d of occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia oblast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But archpriest Maksym does not actively support invaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is remarkable that services with his participation in temporarily occupied Melitopol are still covered by the official website of Zaporizhzhia diocese, de facto part of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One priest told the CJI under conditions of anonymity that, first, archpriest Maksym tried to follow the principle \u201cchurch is out of politics\u201d after occupation. Second, there is another priest from Moscow Patriarchate who plays the role of active supporter of \u201cnew authorities\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is 38 years old Ioann (Prokopenko), the archimandrite and prior of St Savva monastery in Melitopol belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_248066\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248066\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-248066\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arxymandryt_upc_mp_ioann_prokopenko.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arxymandryt_upc_mp_ioann_prokopenko.png 676w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/arxymandryt_upc_mp_ioann_prokopenko-242x300.png 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-248066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Archimandrite of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate Ioann (Prokopenko) Photo: hramzp.ua<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The St Savva monastery in Melitopol was perceived as the center of support of \u201cRussian world\u201d years before, in 2014. The monastery is located almost in the city center (Monastyrska street); it occupies several hectares and dozens of buildings. It was reported that monastery hosted activists of the so-called \u201cRussian Spring\u201d in 2014. Ukrainian security services were informed about that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there was no public reaction from Ukrainian authorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any doubts about political orientation of the monastery disappeared after the Russian aggression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Monastery was quickly turned into the stronghold of the \u201cRussian order\u201d. Its nuns openly voted at \u201creferendum\u201d. Drugs were available in monastery shop even under severe shortages (they were supplied from Ukraine as humanitarian aid and then confiscated by occupation authorities).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_248068\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248068\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-248068\" src=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/melitopol_monastyr_upc_mp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/melitopol_monastyr_upc_mp.png 1246w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/melitopol_monastyr_upc_mp-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/melitopol_monastyr_upc_mp-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/investigator.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/melitopol_monastyr_upc_mp-1024x576.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-248068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Savva monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate in Melitopol. Photo: facebook.com\/ihteos<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later archimandrite Ioann thanked in his interview the Pskov diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, occupation \u201cadministration\u201d and occupied Sevastopol for the humanitarian aid which the monastery distributed \u201camong those in need\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russian occupants did not break into Melitopol churches of Moscow Patriarchate and did not expel its priests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is an evidence of archimandrite\u2019s political cooperation with invaders. Here is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100002402201990\/posts\/pfbid028VanFNaNvToC511yjWk8zUpEQKs53zJsqKDNc3QrdqSxL7sLSJ8HzXrksqPkaxVrl\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">speech of archimandrite Ioann<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the public meeting supporting sham referendum in Melitopol:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI bless you all to persuade authorities of our region to initiate referendum as soon as possible\u201d, as Ionn said publicly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More to that, he was invited by occupants to the public announcement of \u201creferendum results\u201d and annexation of temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in Kremlin palace on September 30, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is clear that this invitation became occupants\u2019 gratitude for archimandrite\u2019s services to Russian occupation authorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>This material is created under the support of the Council of Europe. 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