Kiev Patriarchate signs an agreement on cooperation with right radicals

On May 4 the Chairman of the UOC KP Military Clergy Administration and members of the “Right Sector” signed an agreement on cooperation and interaction, writes the organization’s site.

“Establishing a Ukrainian Independent Catholic State and One Autocephalous Church are strategic areas of cooperation,” the agreement says.

A signatory from the Kiev Patriarchate was Chairman of the UOC KP Military Clergy Administration Ioann Yaremenko, while the “Right Sector” was represented by Chairman of the Central Command Unit Vasiliy Labaychuk.

The Right Sector is convinced that “signing this agreement is a new stage in relations between the Church and the nationalist movement,” says the news.

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