In Krivoy Rog "Tomos supporters" assault Metropolitan Efrem’s residence

Активисты принесли плакаты с агитацией за ЕПЦ под резиденцию митрополита Ефрема и пытались выломать ворота

On November 17, about a dozen residents of Krivoy Rog brought picket signs agitating for the SLC under the residence of Metropolitan Efrem and tried to break down the gate.

The “activists” tried to break down the doors of the building and shouted insults at the Metropolitan Efrem of Krivoy Rog and Nikopol for not supporting the idea of granting the Tomos, reports the press service of the UOC on its Facebook page.

The protesters brought with them signs: “We - for Tomos, Efrem - you with us”, “Why do we need Moscow Church? Only Ukrainian", "Efrem, let’ go together to Tomos," and hung them on the gate.

The UOC representatives stressed that the national police watched passively the situation near the residence and did not prevent the protesters from “shouting out the calls which incited religious hatred”.

“As one of the protesters, who introduced himself as a member of the Right Sector, admitted, he is not a “religious person” but he is in favor of the idea of creating the “Single Local Autocephalous Church”. Another participant said that he was “in the picture”, but “for a free Ukraine”. The third demanded that the metropolitan should abandon his position," said the report.

When the activists realized that the hierarch was not in the residence, they began to disperse.

As the UOJ reported, earlier representatives of the nationalist organization "S14" "visited" the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and began to provoke priests.

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