Abbess Serafima (Shevchik): The ban on the UOC will lead to the collapse of the religious life of Ukraine

Abbess Serafima (Shevchik), abbess of the Odessa Archangel-Mikhailovsky convent, believes that the ban on the UOC will lead to the collapse of religious life in Ukraine.

On her Facebook page, she wrote that the ban on the UOC would lead to serious problems in Ukraine. “The first issue is the closure of thousands of churches. If in the west, in particular in Galicia, from 1 to 15 percent of churches will have to be closed, then in the center — from 50 percent or more. And in the east and south, up to 90 percent of the existing Orthodox churches are subject to closure!”

“The second aspect is the transfer of temples to the OCU. The OCU does not have the clergy to fill all these premises. Services will stop. Although in fact they will continue, only in other locations: in apartments, in rented halls, or even right on the street at the gates of their native churches and monasteries,” Mother Serafima is sure.

Abbess believes that in this case, “religious life will enter a state of collapse,” and “the whole world will be bypassed by videos and photos of the closed doors of thousands of church buildings and crowds of believers who were expelled from there and who pray in the open air.”