Pope Francis has criticized Ukraine’s ban on the country’s Russia-linked Orthodox Church, in a sign of a growing rift between Kiev and the Vatican. “No Christian church may be abolished directly or indirectly. The churches must not be touched,” the pontiff said in his Sunday prayers, condemning a law recently passed by President Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukraine says the ban is justified because the Moscow Patriarchate supports the Russian war of aggression. The pope told tens of thousands of believers in St Peter’s Square that “one does not commit evil by praying. If someone does something evil to …