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Kosovo’s independence means a
defeat of the Orthodox world, the Union of Orthodox citizens believes.
The Union of Orthodox citizens has urged Orthodox world
to mobilize in reply to Kosovo’s separation from Serbia.
“The so-called “recognition” of Kosovo should become
the ultimate point when the Orthodox civilization steps back. There is no way
for further retreat, Moscow – the third Rome is behind’, the Union’s chairman
Valentin Lebedev has told Interfax-Religion on Tuesday.
He considers Moscow “a natural leader of the Eastern
Christian civilization and is responsible for it.”
‘If the Kosovo’s tragedy does not put an end to a
series of defeats and reduction of Orthodox areal, it may be pulled aside from
the world history,” the interviewee of the agency is convinced.
The head of the Union’s Moscow branch Kirill Frolov has
stated that ‘opponents of Orthodoxy and Russia advance their attack.”
He noted that co-chairman of the country’s Mufti’s
Council Nafigullah Ashirov “contradicted Russia’s position and spoke for
Kosovo’s independence saying that Serbs and Albanians can’t live together.”
‘It is explicit apologetics for genocide of Orthodox
Serbs in Kosovo, its results,” Frolov stated.
He noted that “it is high time the caravan of defeats
was stopped” and added that “Orthodox world should concentrate and back up its
positions.”
“The defense, the economic, the political and other
structures of the Christian world should be established. Every local Church
should become missionary. Everyone is concerned – both clergy and laymen. In
case the processes of diminishing and vanishing of Orthodox world, especially
for demographical reasons, aren’t stopped and reversed, they will assume
irreversible character,” Frolov said.”
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