Bartholomew refused from suspicious drink from Russians when meeting with Patriarch of Moscow.

These hours, the council of Orthodox Churches in Istanbul is deciding whether to give autocephaly, i.e. independence, to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Until now, Ukrainian Orthodox Church has not been considered as an “approved” orthodox church by other Orthodox churches of the world, and is still controlled from... Moscow, i.e. Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a part of Russian Orthodox Church. Russia is crazy about the fact that it can lose yet another control over Ukraine via the Church. It spends a lot o