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In rebel-held Donetsk, religious intolerance by the theocrats of Russian Orthodoxy grows
In rebel-held Donetsk, religious intolerance growsSince the pro-Russian separatists declared this region the Donetsk People’s Republic last April, Leonid Krezhanovsky, the leading elder of Donetsk’s Church of Christ congregation, has been looking over his shoulder. The Russian-backed rebels quickly made the Russian Orthodox Church the official religion of the rebel government. Since then, any religious group outside the Russian Orthodox faith — including Ukrainian Orthodox churches rejecting the Moscow patriarch for the Kiev patriarch — has been viewed by the rebels as a potential enemy.
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