Patriarch Kirill worked for the KGB in the 1970s, Swiss media reports

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a close supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, worked for the Russian intelligence service in Switzerland in the 1970s, according to two Swiss newspapers, citing declassified archives.

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[segurosincero]

First, it was Putin’s cook. Now it’s Putin’s priest. What’s next, Putin’s barber?

[theseek]

The Russian Orthodox Church had to be "in league" with the KGB to survive. Patriach Kirill is a holy man, and condemns every kind of heresy in the Christian world today, including ecumenism, which the Soviets invented. Yet Pope Francis promotes it. Yet every other Christian denomination (just about) promotes it. But you try to condemn him for his past FORCED affiliation.

[uss]

Patriarch Kirill, Vladimir Gundyaev, KGB agent "Mikhailov".

[mikejose]

The Moscow Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church was created by Stalin in 1943 as a structure of the KGB.

[lukaszslowakiewicz]

Question: If Putin was a KGB Colonel and Kirill a KGB Major - if they meet - who confess one's sins to who?

[angis]

but dont pay attentiont to this ...he really loves God and is spreading message of piece and forgiveness 😉

[priesteresmarietje]

I didn't have my glasses on so the thumbnail looks like he has his head pushed into a giant box of popcorn.

[ΑνΕμ]

Old news, Euronews.
Are you trying to shock and defame orthodox Christian church ?
Because your effort is cheap. Churches are made from the feet up not from the head down you know. Kudos .

[asterisks]

This must be so embarrassing for them as an institution. The KGB should try and distance it self from the Church for fear of the potential reputational damage.

[edvardzv]

The message to Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill: *"...follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God"* (3 John 1:11).

The message to all people: *"Defend not your lands, nor your houses, nor your lives, but defend your souls from sin, and God will protect you!"*

Jesus said: *"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works"* (Matthew 16:25-27).

Reading the books of the New Testament, we probably asked ourselves more than once: *"Why 2000 years we do not see those miracles that accompanied the Сhurch of Christ in the I century, as described in the New Testament?"* Why do the so-called preachers of Christ have to prove that Jesus really existed and atheists boldly deny the historicity or divine origin of Christ? Maybe because the Сhurch of Christ has not existed for 2000 years?
The Сhurch does not exist in the form in which it is presented in the books of the New Testament, but there are Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and other christian sects claiming to be the place of the Church, but they not have the only thing that distinguishes the divine from the human and is characteristic of just the Сhurch of Christ -the reinforcement of the word with signs, that is, miracles (Mark 16:15-20). Therefore, some researchers doubt the historicity of Christ, and some of them are not opposed to declaring him a an ordinary philosopher, teacher. But even if Jesus were an ordinary philosopher, his disciples would be ordinary followers of Jesus. And they would not dare to write about the miracles that not only Jesus, but also his disciples, could perform. In this world, the great fertility of atheism can be explained by the fact that there is no main opponent of critics of the Bible - the Church. If there were the Church in our time as described by the authors of the New Testament books, where miracles are performed, the sick are healed, where prophesied, and the dead are raised, no one would doubt the historicity of Christ. Then there would be the same controversy throughout the world as in the first century - Jesus the Son of God or the false prophet who seduces the world by miracles. As a result, we can say that the emergence and development of christian sects and atheism was the result of the fact that over the 2000 years the Сhurch of Christ did not exist.

Find *"The Mystery about the Church of Christ"* video on YouTube. The video reveals the prophecy of the disappearance and reappearance of the Church of Christ before the End of the World. Watching this video will give hope to all who sincerely seek God and will interest those who are not too lazy to think freely. Click on my name to watch the video (The video is in Russian, but English subtitles are included).

[peter_oso]

Wow. Swiss media and Euronews are really fast. This was common knowledge for years.

[nigelsmith]

I guess working for the KGB helped him find GOD! Maybe he mistook one for the other.