The Information and Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church publishes a letter from His Beatitude Anastasios, the Primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who on 11 August 2023, through His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine, sent to Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshhorod and Chornobyl a letter with words of support to the brotherhood of the Kyiv Caves Lavra and the faithful of the UOC, who are suffering from unlawful persecutions.
Your Eminence beloved brother in Christ,
With the deepest sorrow we follow the painful trials of Your beloved Eminence and Your chosen flock.
We participate in Your sufferings and, to extend of our capabilities, we share where appropriate our testimony about the atrocities against the pious Orthodox holy clergy, the devout people, as well as the renowned sacred place of Lavra Caves Monastery. Fraternally, we pray that God strengthen You to “commend yourself as minister of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments” (2 Cor. 6:4-5).
‘Our thoughts and supplications unceasingly are with You, so that, aligning Yourself with the chorus of the new martyrs, You also may face the present absurd persecution by Orthodox “by the Holy Spirit, by the word of truth, by the power of God… as unknown yet well known, as dying and behold we live, as chastened, and yet not killed” (2 Cor. 6:6-9).
With high esteem and sincere love in Christ,
ANASTASIOS,
Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania
Tirana August 11th, 2023
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