Kremlin propagandists have succeeded in attracting worldwide attention to the ways in which the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine has moved to reduce the influence of the Moscow-controlled Ukrainian Orthodox Church. But what the OCU has done in Ukraine pales in comparison with what the ROC MP has in Russian-occupied areas.

There, the Moscow church working with the Russian military and Russian officials has sought to take full control over religious life, forcing other churches to cooperate fully with it or in many cases shutting down their parishes and other institutions, jailing or expelling religious leaders, and imposing a distinctly Russian pattern of religious activity.

Those repressive actions — and what they........

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