Vasyl Ivasyuk

"We are grateful to God for His large grace and mercy to the people. At the same time we ask all people of good will to pray for the successful building of the church, because we know very well that when the Lord does not build a house, builders work in vain."

"This is not new. During Soviet times, we were always accused of being "agents" of the Vatican. Of course not all people in Crimea think we are spies, but there is a very active pro-Russian group there that does."