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Kazakh cleric seeks to start new Orthodox church to rival Russia’s

Kazakh cleric seeks to start new Orthodox church to rival Russia’s

  • Vorontsov, a former priest at the Moscow-governed Orthodox Church of Kazakhstan, was dismissed last year after describing the war in Ukraine as a fratricidal “sin” on social media
  • He also called for Kazakhstan to “fence itself off” from Russia
By AFP ·