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Arrests and bans during Patriarch Kirill?s visit to Ukraine

By Alliance Alert

Asia News: "'Down with the Moscow pope', is the slogan repeated by nationalist demonstrators every time the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia visits Ukraine. In fact it was brandished again today in Kiev, where Patriarch Kirill is on an official visit and were he opened the Synod of the Russian-Orthodox Church. Eight people were arrested for demonstrating against the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. In Dnipropetrovsk, however, the authorities have even banned any kind of street protests against Kirill, on this his third trip to the country since being elected in 2009."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 28, 2010 (boomark / email).