"Religion and faith are the key to the future of Europe and the world." - believes Metropolitan Yevstratiy Zorya of Bila Tserkva, Bishop of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and spokesman for the Holy Synod, a new guest of the "Klimkin asks".

In a conversation with the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin he talks about what the OCU is for Ukrainian society today, why interest in faith does not disappear in times of war, but rather increases, and what role the church plays in shaping the identity and stability of the state. Special attention is paid to the historical experience: how the USSR systematically destroyed religion, why the church did not "go down in history" in the nineteenth century, and what distinguishes Ukrainian Orthodoxy from other religious traditions in Europe.

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The discussion is centered on religion as a factor in geopolitics: what the Russian Orthodox Church really is, why the concept of the "Russian world" is not a theology but an ideology, and whether the ROC contradicts the very idea of faith in God. He also discusses the decline of the church in the West, its implications for democracies, the role of the new Pope in the global religious reality, and whether the Moscow Patriarchate is losing to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine-and what this means not only for Ukraine but also for the future of Russia itself.

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