Russian financial institution playing cards are given to the African clerics of the Patriarchate of Alexandria who change to the Moscow Patriarchate within the so-called “African Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church”. This was instructed by the Ukrainian theologian Archimandrite Kirill (Govorun), who attended a global convention in Sweden devoted to the crises in world Orthodoxy. The primary session was devoted to Ukraine and Georgia, and the second to Africa. A participant from Africa gave a report on how the “African Exarchate” was fashioned. In accordance with him, the Russian state wants a church construction in Africa to facilitate the decision of political and enterprise points with native authorities: “In Africa, individuals in non secular garments have nice authority and the door of each workplace opens for them. The Kremlin opens a few of these doorways with the assistance of individuals in cassocks”. On the similar time, the monks of the Russian Orthodox Church acted as recruiters of native males for the battle with Ukraine: “These individuals additionally not directly or instantly recruit native individuals to go to Russia. The locals belief them as a result of ‘individuals in cassocks don’t give dangerous recommendation.’ So that they go after which some find yourself on the entrance.”
A participant within the convention instructed the story of an Orthodox seminarian who went to Russia to enter a seminary, however there they took his passport and started to arrange him for the entrance: “He discovered in time what they have been making ready for him and managed to flee.”
It additionally grew to become clear that African clergy who depart the Patriarchate of Alexandria and change to the Russian Orthodox Church are issued a financial institution card, which, nevertheless, just isn’t of their identify: “Those that change from the Patriarchate of Alexandria to the Moscow Patriarchate are given a financial institution card, on which they obtain 200 euros each month. Nonetheless, the cardboard just isn’t issued of their identify, however to Russian organizations. One cleric even had a card with Prigozhin’s identify on it. This makes these individuals extremely dependent and, furthermore, permits for the misuse of funds allotted for Africans. Adherents of native non secular cults or confessions that aren’t even Christian, register with the Orthodox clergy with a purpose to obtain a financial institution card. In the meantime, extra principled Orthodox Christians, dissatisfied with such missionary strategies, change to different confessions.”
In the end, this inevitably results in disillusionment with Orthodoxy and destroys the fruits of the Orthodox mission on the African continent.
