{"id":28212,"date":"2019-01-07T22:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28212"},"modified":"2019-01-07T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:23:03","slug":"why-has-ukraines-orthodox-church-split-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28212","title":{"rendered":"Why has Ukraine&#8217;s Orthodox church split from Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"79\">\n<p>The eastern Orthodox church has over 250 million members around the world, with its spiritual leader based in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>But for followers in Ukraine, there&#8217;s a new found independence.<\/p>\n<p>Churches there have officially cut ties with the Russian branch of the church &#8211; accusing it of what they call &#8216;pro-Moscow propaganda&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But the decision has angered Russian leaders, with Moscow warning of serious consequences for what it calls political maneuvering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Elizabeth Puranam<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Valentin Yakushik &#8211; professor of political science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy<\/p>\n<p>Marat Shterin &#8211; professor of sociology of religion and department head of theology and religious studies at King&#8217;s College London<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Bratersky &#8211; senior foreign policy writer at Gazeta.ru newspaper<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eastern Orthodox church has over 250 million members around the world, with its spiritual leader based in Istanbul. But for followers in Ukraine, there&#8217;s a new found independence. Churches there have officially cut ties with the Russian branch of the church &#8211; accusing it of what they call &#8216;pro-Moscow propaganda&#8217;. But the decision has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}