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Pro-Russian mercenaries seize Protestant Church in Luhansk Region
Religious Information Service of Ukraine ^ | 9 Sept 2014

Posted on 09/09/2014 4:40:11 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans

PRO-RUSSIAN MERCENARIES SEIZE PROTESTANT CHURCH IN LUHANSK REGION

9 September 2014, 09:55 | Temples, church property | 0 | | Code for Blog | |

Mercenaries of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (which the Ukrainian court names a terrorist organization) on September 8 occupied the building of the Church in Anthracite (Luhansk region). Armed men with two priests of the Orthodox Church entered the meeting house and demanded that all leave the church.

Pastors organized a bomb shelter and charity kitchen in the basement of the House of Prayer for All Peoples. People with disabilities were also taken care of in the church.

As previously reported, in June, armed men broke into the house owned by Buddhist community in the village Pankivka in the Luhansk region and ordered everyone to leave the building. In July, Luhansk terrorists closed the Roman Catholic Parish of St. Mary. At the same time, the Donetsk People’s Republic terrorists captured the monastery of the Sister Servants Ukrainian Catholic Church in Donetsk and shelled the cathedral of the UGCC in Donetsk.


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The Russians have been persecuting non-ROC churches for years. This is not an isolated incident.
1 posted on 09/09/2014 4:40:11 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Phooey!

http://1389blog.com/2014/08/28/unique-russian-orthodox-church-shelled-burnt-to-ashes-in-east-ukraine/

The Ukrainian Junta forces have been deliberately bombing and shelling Orthodox Churches—some with people worshiping inside—in East Ukraine. They’ve been deliberately bombing and shelling civilian homes too, killing whole families!!!!

Our tax dollars at work! PHOOEY!!!!


2 posted on 09/09/2014 5:17:30 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Nothing to see here. Move along.

</sarc>

3 posted on 09/09/2014 5:19:46 PM PDT by Gamecock (Not responsible for errors resulting from posting via my "smart" phone.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Putin will also end his days like a rat in a cage.


4 posted on 09/09/2014 5:24:25 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: Dagnabitt
(Like Milosevic) Putin will also end his days like a rat in a cage.

Well, if if ya can't even convict somebody in a Kangaroo court, ya can always withhold their heart medication and salt their food.

5 posted on 09/09/2014 5:45:50 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Honorary Serb

“The Ukrainian Junta forces have been deliberately bombing and shelling Orthodox Churches”

How do you know? After all the Russians - in their older Soviet incarnation - routinely killed their own people and blamed it on others in wartime.


6 posted on 09/09/2014 7:02:37 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Honorary Serb
The Ukrainian Junta forces

The moment you use the word "Junta" you immediately lose all credibility, just FYI.

7 posted on 09/09/2014 7:35:20 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957


8 posted on 09/09/2014 8:46:00 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb

Your link has nothing to do with anything. I think you were trying to justify your use of the pejorative term, “junta”. What is interesting, however, is that the name of the current elected president of Ukraine, Poroshenko, appears nowhere in that article.


9 posted on 09/09/2014 8:55:28 PM PDT by Agog
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To: Honorary Serb

And?


10 posted on 09/09/2014 9:04:00 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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