Also at stake in Ukraine: the future of two Orthodox Churches
Worshippers attending a service at the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, one of the holiest sites for Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine and Russia, on Tuesday in Kyiv.Credit...Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
The Russian church hopes to reunite with the independent Ukrainian branch under a single patriarch in Moscow that would allow it to control the holiest sites of Orthodoxy in the Slavic world.
If Ukraine prevails against the Russian invasion, the Moscow church will all but certainly be ejected. If Russia wins, the Ukrainian church is unlikely to survive inside Ukraine. Read the full article at the New York Times.