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20 August 2012, 10:13

Cross sawn down by FEMEN activists in Kyiv turned out to be Catholic, not Orthodox

Kyiv, August 20, Interfax - The cross that activists from the movement FEMEN sawed down in central Kyiv turned out to be Catholic, not Orthodox, the Ukrainian public organization Orthodox Choice told Interfax-Religion.

"This cross was put by Transcarpathian uniates in memory of the people martyred by ChK and NKVD in the 1920s and the 1930s without any authorization in 2004," the source said.

However, the majority of the people who were subjected to repression in the former building of the Noble Girls' Institute in Kyiv were Orthodox clergymen, Russian officers and soldiers, and activists from the Russian People's Union and other monarchist organizations, the source said.

"It is also obvious that the majority of the people who were subjected to repression under Stalin were Orthodox Christians. It has to be said that that repression was also a manifestation of the persecution of the Orthodox Church in the atheist period of the Soviet rule," the source said.

For this reason, it would have been fair to put an Orthodox cross near the building of the current Arts Palace in Kyiv in memory of the Orthodox Christians killed in the 1920s and the 1930s, the source said.

"We are asking the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies to subject to criminal liability activists from the movement FEMEN, who have committed blasphemous anti-Christian acts before. We also believe the Justice Ministry has enough grounds to ban FEMEN as an organization posing danger to society," the statement says.

According to earlier reports, FEMEN activists sawed down a cross in central Kyiv located near the International Center for Culture and Arts (Oktyabrsky Palace) to express their solidarity and support of Pussy Riot.

A criminal case was opened on the basis of the article of the Ukrainian Criminal Code dealing with hooliganism.

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Via: interfax-religion.com

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