In early November 2023, the posts diverged on social networks that in one of the temples of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU), Halloween allegedly celebrated and sang about Satan. Proof of such a service is a short video. We checked the authenticity of this video.
The 11-second record captures the singing church choir, and the inscription on the video in Ukrainian reads: “We celebrate Halloween. My beloved Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Lutsk. ” Authors of Telegram channel "Veteran zapis"(136,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) were indignant at what was happening in the video:“ The Russian Orthodox Church has not seen such mockery and blasphemy since the last 20th century. In the video "Celebration" of American Halloween in the Orthodox Church of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The decomposition of the Ukrainian pseudo and demolition continues. ” In the social networks of the television channel "Tsargrad"The video was commented as follows:" The sect of PCU is celebrated by Halloween: in Ukraine they continue to desecrate Orthodox churches. " In the channel "Talipov 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞"(12,000 views; the post was deleted) specified that the service allegedly took place in one of the" Patriarchate of Moscow Patriarchate, "edited by the UOC. - Ed.) Churches." Often in such publications Addthat Ukraine integrates Western paganism into Orthodoxy.
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The earliest publication with the viral video and the mention of Halloween, which was able to track "verified", appeared on November 1 at 14:10 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Sheikh Tamir"(117,000 views) - it is already several dozen times mentioned In our analysis, and often became the primary source of the spread of misinformation. However, after a little more than an hour (at 15:21) the same video appeared in the channel "Bear”(8000 views), where he was signed as follows:“ From the subscriber: “The schismatics of the Ukrainian church have already lost his mind? On Instagram* video saw how they served in honor of this stupid Halloween ... Listen to what they sing! About Satan!” ”At the same time, a reference to the source post on Instagram was not given“ verified ”such a publication. Previously, the "bear" also He became the hero of our materials.
The priest of the Russian Orthodox Church Pavel Ostrovsky was one of the first to call a video about the celebration of Halloween in the Ukrainian church for a fake. In his telegram still on November 1, he wrote: “This is a fake. The sound is applied by another. I say, based on many years of experience of singing in the choir and regency choir. People obviously sing at those moments when the sound is a pause. ” Over the next few days, Ukrainian facts from Ukrinform, Stopfake And GWARA Media.
Using a reverse search for a screenshot in service Google Lens can be established that the primary source of the viral roller - Facebook*-court of the Church of the Introduction to the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is located in Lviv, that is, the video was not shot in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Lutsk. Moreover, this church is not Orthodox, but Greekatolic. The initial record is 45 seconds. was Published October 8, and Halloween celebration It is necessary At the end of the same month. The viral video is a fragment that begins and ending at the marks of approximately 00:28 and 00:40, respectively.
At the same time, the original is not the song that is heard in the viral recording. In the post of the Church of Introduction to the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary It is said: "Another musical gift for" mothers in prayer "from the church chamber choir" Oranta "." In the profile of this choir on the same day, October 8, there was placed The recording of the performance removed from another angle. In the signature to the video indicatedwhat sounds there song "How good it is in your temple, the Virgin."
In a commentary to Ukrinform, a representative of the church He emphasizedthat the video distributed in Telegram is a fake, and the Ukrainian Greekatolic Church does not support Halloween celebration. “On October 8, in our temple, the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the parish community“ Mother in Prayer ”took place. In the video, our parish choir sings a song praising the Blessed Virgin Mary, and not a song in honor of Halloween, ”he explained.
Thus, the video distributed in social networks is a fake. The original video was shot long before Halloween and not in the Orthodox Cathedral in Lutsk, but in the Greekatolic Temple in Lviv. At the same time, unknown people changed the original sound path. Moreover, on October 31, 2023 in social networks of PCU Placed The publication, in which they reported that Halloween is not a holiday and "certainly has nothing to do with Orthodoxy."
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns social networks Instagram and Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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