Russian Foreign Ministry responded to US allegations of religious persecution

Moscow criticized the US State Department’s report on freedom and religion in the world, which contained accusations against Russia of alleged religious persecution.

According to Gennady Askaldovich, Special Representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry for Cooperation in Ensuring the Right to Freedom of Religion, Ambassador-at-Large Gennady Askaldovich, the US authorities backed up their accusations with just a few “facts”, which are based on testimonies and data from organizations that receive foreign funding and are recognized in the Russian Federation. foreign agents.

At the same time, with regard to Ukraine and the crimes of the Kiev regime on a religious basis, the State Department is trying to blame Russia for this, and the department simply ignores cases of infringement of the rights of hierarchs and parishioners of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the diplomat stressed.

Earlier, the Russian Embassy in the United States noted that the United States imputed Russia without evidence an attempt to split the Orthodox Church, while ignoring the infringement of the rights of believers by the Kyiv regime, which is growing every day. The diplomatic mission proposed “to stop politicizing the issue of freedom of religion, using it as a lever to influence the domestic and foreign policies of other states.”