The Economist: Among global Orthodox leaders, Ukraine is a bone of contention
A priest of Ukrainian Orthodox Church gives a blessing on Orthodox Epiphany at Mamayeva Sloboda folk park in Kyiv on Jan. 19.
The Anglican Communion is not the only worldwide Christian fraternity to have organised a tense, top-level meeting this month. Only a couple of weeks after the Communion preserved its shaky unity by ostracising its liberal American brethren, the leaders of the Orthodox Christian church convened in all their robed solemnity, and at rather short notice, in Geneva.
