Signs and a Fateful Timetable : The Hidden Secret of Fatima …Russian Orthodox Church Warns Ukraine of Bloodshed Over Scisim..
Reader of Third Secret of Fatima, Malachi Martin, said the Fatima Secret involves Russia and Ukraine. Signs of Fatima Prophecy emerging in Ukraine.
On September 20, 2018, the Russian Orthodox Church warned that Ukraine’s bid for spiritual independence could lead to bloodshed and a schism in the eastern church, as it froze ties with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople – traditionally the “first among equals” in the Orthodox world.
Russian clerics are furious over Bartholomew’s apparently favourable response to Ukraine’s request that he grant full independence to its church, which is currently divided between rival patriarchates that are loyal to Moscow and Kiev.
The split occurred after a sovereign Ukraine
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko appealed to Bartholomew in April for church independence – also known as autocephaly – and he says the formation of a national church is a crucial step in Ukraine’s bid to escape centuries of Russian domination.
Earlier this month, the Istanbul-based patriarchate said it was dispatching two bishops to Ukraine “within the framework of preparations for the granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine”.