A religious leader who blamed the coronavirus pandemic on LGBTs is seriously ill with COVID-19.
Ukraine’s Patriarch Filaret – the leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, one of the biggest branches of Christianity in the country has 15 million followers in the nation of 42 million people – has pneumonia.
“We inform that during planned testing, His Holiness Patriarch Filaret of Kiev and All Rus-Ukraine tested positive for COVID-19,” the church said in a statement. “Now His Holiness Bishop is undergoing treatment at a hospital.”