As reported, recently the organizer of the "Russian marches" and the presidential candidate of Russia Alexander Baburin created in Belarus a political movement to "speed up integration." Representatives of the LDP, "Tell the Truth", Communists and a number of Black-Hundred organizations like "Rumola" took part in the dubious event. It is noteworthy that representatives of the Viciebsk Orthodox clergy also participated.

Some clerics just lit up in the company of Baburin, others – blessed the participants of the congress or directly performed on it, as, for example, Father Mikhail Martynovich, the rector of the Viciebsk cathedral.

What was it? This question was answered by the chairman of the information synodal department of the BOC, Sergey Lepin.

"The Belarusian Orthodox Church carries out its service with the expectation that the independence of Belarus is our universal constitutional value. In his speech about. Andrei [the priest who spoke at the congress] focused on the spiritual and historical unity of the Belarusian and Russian peoples, and not on the political one. Father Michael also spoke about the unity, not the unification of our peoples and states. It was about the need to keep the moral pillars and remember the lessons of history. So that's great! Let's follow and remember. I am ready to express support for the hope that between our three countries there will be peace, good-neighborliness, mutual respect and everything that corresponds to the idea of ​​alliance," Lepin said.

"The opinion of one of the clerics of the Viciebsk diocese of the BOC that Belarus, Ukraine and Russia should be one state is, first of all, the personal opinion of this priest, although it was expressed in the categories of necessity and obligation. From the point of view of the morality of the church, no one owes anything to anyone except love, "Lepin summed up.

According to: АЯ, nn.by