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The Russia/Ukraine battle you probably haven't heard about involves the Orthodox Church

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, center, Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, second right, and then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, third left, release birds during a ceremony sanctifying the Ukrainian church’s independence from the Russian Orthodox Church, in Istanbul, on Jan. 6, 2019.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, center, Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, second right, and then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, third left, release birds during a ceremony sanctifying the Ukrainian church’s independence from the Russian Orthodox Church, in Istanbul, on Jan. 6, 2019. (Lefteris Pitarakis, Associated Press)


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