Has Patriarch Kirill denied the genocide of Armenians?
14 January 2016
Patriarch Kirill is known to promote interreligious dialogue with Muslims, and all his closest team takes it as a priority. The promotion of globalization interreligious dialogue after the pattern of the Vatican is the aim of the 8th Pan-Orthodox Synod. Through the Second Vatican Council, this dialogue opened the door to Islamization of Western Europe connected with terrorism. Without the Council, Islamization would be impossible. Today it is in US interests to enforce this globalization dialogue in the Russian Orthodox Church, too, with the intention of bringing about its internal disintegration, just as it happened in the Catholic Church.
Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the genocide in Armenia. It was expected that Patriarch Kirill would clearly, before the whole Orthodox Church, point out the Holocaust and make a concrete gesture to honour the memory of the Armenian martyrs. He made no such gesture in the jubilee year. In 2015, when Islamic terrorists cut the throats of Christians in Egypt and the whole world viewed the video recordings of the incident, both the Vatican and Kirill were silent; they neither stood in defence of the Christian martyrs nor condemned the Islamic terrorists. President Putin was not silent on it but expressed the need to stand in defence of Christians.
The Armenian mass media and the Armenian segment of social networks these days are very disturbed over the statement of Patriarch Kirill in the Russian television. What did Kirill say?
Quotation: “…things that are now happening in the Islamic world were never seen in the past. Let us take the example of the Ottoman Empire: certainly, there were Christian minorities there, but no one sought their destruction.”
Response: By this statement, Patriarch Kirill publicly, before the whole Russian society, falsely denied the reality of the Armenian genocide of 1915! One and a half million Christians were slaughtered.
How did Alexander Volkov, the press secretary for Patriarch Kirill, respond to the indignation of the Armenians?
He evasively emphasized a kind of activities in relation to the Armenian Church, especially the “participation of His Holiness Kirill at consecration of an Armenian temple in Moscow…”
If Patriarch Kirill was in ideological unity with President Putin, he should make the most of the genocide anniversary. He should truthfully explain the danger of Islamic terrorism for Russia and the need for protection against its expansion. Today, both Europe and Russia are in danger. Kirill is hypocritically silent. Furthermore, he denies the reality of genocide by saying: “Let us take the example of the Ottoman Empire: certainly, there were Christian minorities there, but no one sought their destruction.” By this statement Patriarch Kirill is promoting an anti-Church and anti-national policy. So whom does he serve?
Patriarch Kirill’s spokesman, A. Volkov, along with journalists who promote US globalization and anti-national policy in Russia justified the Patriarch and accused the journalist Kiselev in the press.
Quotation: “These problematic words were deleted from the text of the mentioned interview on the official site of the Russian Orthodox Church. And that’s correct.”
Response: That’s not correct, that’s hypocrisy! Patriarch Kirill either supports his statement or not. If not, he is obliged to make himself clear before the whole nation and to express his attitude towards the Armenian genocide as well as towards current Islamic terrorism.
Quotation: “Why did the television commentator who had obtained the interview released an ambiguous statement of the Patriarch?”
Response: We ask: Why does Patriarch speak ambiguously? The problem is not with the TV commentator, the problem is with Patriarch Kirill.
Quotation: “Was it so difficult to erase one sentence from the interview before showing it on TV and publishing it on the Internet?”
Response: It is very easy to delete a sentence from a video, but the problem is to delete it from the mind of Patriarch Kirill.
Quotation: “Have perhaps D. Kiselev and his team lost professionalism? Or is it a provocation?”
Response: As far as provocation is concerned, there was no provocation on the part of Kiselev but rather on the part of Kirill. In the current situation, when Islamists have made an aerial attack over Egypt, shot down the plane over Turkey, made a terrorist attack in Paris, when Russia is forced to defend Syria against Islamic terrorists and has issued a ban on the promotion of the Islamic State, Patriarch Kirill carries out provocations. Indeed, in this situation, it is a provocation to cover the cruelty of Islam both current and past. It is a provocation to boycott the Armenian genocide by a false assertion that “no one sought the destruction of Christian minorities” in the Ottoman Empire.
On the issue of professionalism: Patriarch Kirill should be a professional in terms of the Orthodox faith. He should know clearly that it is incompatible with Islam, Buddhism or other pagan cults. He should represent the traditional, orthodox attitude of the Orthodox faith, and not open to the heresies of the present-day Vatican. In addition, he and the apostate Patriarch Bartholomew plan to enforce the so-called interreligious dialogue at the Pan-Orthodox Synod of 2016. The purpose is, in essence, self-destruction of the Orthodox faith and of the authority of the Orthodox Church, which is in the US interests.
Quotation: “The most powerful ideological institution in Russia today is the Russian Orthodox Church. … Even the unbelieving population of Russia … must understand that the existence of Russia as a state depends on the existence of the Russian Orthodox Church.”
Response: Who destroys the Russian Orthodox Church most effectively? The most effective self-destructive means is an abuse of supreme authority. We see this in the case of Gorbachev and Pope Francis. Both of them served the US globalization policy. Does Patriarch Kirill not serve the same policy? If the Russian Orthodox Church is the most powerful ideological institution in Russia, are the US not interested in secretly exploiting it for their own ends? In Ukraine, globalists used the minority Catholic Church under Card. Husar to stage a coup. The ideological weapon of globalists is interreligious dialogue which leads to internal disintegration of the Orthodox Church. Patriarch Kirill promotes it even as the main theme of the 2016 Pan-Orthodox Synod!
Quotation: “That’s why it is necessary to operatively suppress any provocation against the Russian Orthodox Church, and to make it our common concern to watch over its protection on informational and social level.”
Response: It is necessary to distinguish what is a provocation and what is a betrayal. To protect the Church means to expose the real culprit and the betrayal within and without the Church. It is necessary to make it a common concern to watch over its protection on informational and social level in this way and, above all, it is necessary to operatively suppress the strongest influence in the efforts at self-destruction of the Orthodox Church! To save the Orthodox Church from a disaster requires that Patriarch Kirill should be removed from office as quickly as possible. The 6th General Council of Constantinople (680-681) anathematized the main authors of a new heretical doctrine, the heresy of Monotheletism, the Patriarchs of Constantinople Sergius, Pyrrhus and Paul, Cyrus the Patriarch of Alexandria as well as Pope Honorius I. Patriarch Kirill has already fallen under an anathema – God’s curse – according to Gal 1:8-9 for the proclamation of heresies of interreligious syncretism with paganism. The grace of God has been removed from him and he now occupies office illegitimately. Through the apostate Kirill a curse rather than a blessing spreads to the Orthodox Church and the Russian people. Therefore, he must be relieved from office as soon as possible!
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