mo4ch:>Protests against church construction same as killing of Russia’s royal family – top priest | Mo4ch News

Only lost souls protest the construction of churches, as has happened recently in Yekaterinburg, because the Orthodox faith is the ‘blood’ of the Russian people and essential for their survival, a high-ranked cleric has said.Almost 100 demonstrators were detained in Yekaterinburg mid-May during a week of heated unsanctioned protests against the reconstruction of the church of St. Catherine. It was demolished in 1930 and replaced by a park, which the protestors now want to keep.“Today the [Orthodox] Church is facing a challenge. This challenge came from Yekaterinburg,” Metropolitan of Ekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Kirill commented on the tense events in the largest city in Russia’s Urals.It’s just like 100 years ago when the shots were fired and the blood of the Royal martyrs was spilled.The Metropolitan expressed belief that the killing of the last Russian Emperor, Nicholas II, and his family by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg in July 1918 marked the beginning of the genocide of the Ru…