SIMFEROPOL: The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea said he has been arrested by authorities in the Russian-annexed peninsula on Sunday.Father Kliment told AFP he was speaking by phone from a police station in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, where he had been arrested at a bus station.Police did not tell him why he was being held, he said.The arrest comes after a historic religious split between Kiev and Moscow, which may lead to the closure of Kliment’s church, the Cathedral of Saint Vladimir and Saint Olga.The press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church said in a statement …read more
Source: theSun
