Russian Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter at Midnight Mass
Posted on 05/08/2024 4:57:37 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
"Your church has no right to exist, as it has connections with America and other Western countries," Russian authorities told the deacon of the Pentecostal church in Nova Kakhovka, Oleksandr Prokopchuk. They arrested him and his 19-year-old son. Both were later found dead in a forest. In occupied Sloviansk four members of the Evangelical Church of the Transformation were accused of being American spies because some U.S. dollars were found in their pockets. They were subsequently shot and killed.
Evangelicals are targeted by the Russians disproportionally... Protestants were the victims of 34 percent of the reported persecution events...Baptists made up 13 percent of victims – the largest single group after Ukrainian Orthodox. Under Russian control 400 Baptist congregations have been lost, 17% of the total in Ukraine.
Petro Dudnyk, Pastor of the Good News Church, explains that the occupying forces "thought and spoke like this: you are the American faith, the Americans are our enemies, the enemies must be destroyed."
By hurting those who practice an “American” religion the Kremlin can claim it is striking against American power....
But it’s not just individual clergy Russian forces go after, sometimes it’s whole congregation..
When Russian occupying forces shut down the Melitopol Christian Church, they used sledge hammers to break into the building. Members were interrogated as to whether the church was hiding any Americans. The house of worship was expropriated and given to a Russian Ministry. Its fifty foot cross was chopped down...
Sometimes the Russians also try to “cure” protestants. Viktor Cherniiavskyi, was held for 25 days, beaten with a baseball bat and given electro-shocks. A Russian Orthodox priest was present in this process, and tried to cast demons out of him for being an evangelical Christian...
(Excerpt) Read more at aol.com ...
You just make up those crazy posts out of thin air, bizarre.
Russian Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter at Midnight Mass
About the author
Peter Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born British journalist, author and TV producer. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, where he co-directs the Arena program. He is also an associate editor at Coda Media, a position he has held since at least 2015. Wikipedia
Born: 1977 (age 47 years), Kyiv, Ukraine
“More propaganda. The evangelical church is going quite well in Russia, far better than peaceful pro-lifers, Catholics or the J6 protesters are here:” - Kazan denouncing factual information as “propaganda” while then responding with state approved behavior and state propaganda references
Meanwhile, back in the real world: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3609726/
WCC welcomes meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill for unity and peace
12 February 2016
Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has issued a statement on behalf of the Council hailing the historic meeting of Pope Francis, pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, and Patriarch Kirill, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The two leaders met on 12 February in Havana, Cuba.
The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest member church in the WCC...”
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Catch that? The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest member of the (hard left) World Council of Churches!
That is all you need to know to understand that it is a sham operation. Reverend Wright’s fake church United Church of Christ (UCC) is also a member. In fact, his (communist) “Black Liberation Theology” was concocted by the KGB.
The Russians must laugh their butts off at how easily westerners can be tricked and deceived.
The Russian Orthodox Church is a member of the (communist) World Council of Churches:
https://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/russian-orthodox-church
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From David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (WCC)
Long-time proponent of Liberation Theology
Infiltrated by the KGB during the Cold War
Funded Marxist insurgent groups throughout the world
Calls for capitalism’s “reform” according to socialist principles
[lots more at link...]
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7514
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From David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: LIBERATION THEOLOGY
“...liberation theology’s real creator was the Soviet Union’s foreign intelligence and domestic security agency, the KGB.
Patriarch Kirill, who today heads Russian Orthodox Church, secretly worked for the KGB under the code name “Mikhailov” and spent some 40 years promoting liberation theology.
Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc official ever to defect to the West, writes: “Liberation theology has been generally understood to be a marriage of Marxism and Christianity.
What has not been understood is that it was not the product of Christians who pursued Communism, but of Communists who pursued Christians....
Its genesis was part of a highly classified Party/State Disinformation Program, formally approved in 1960 by KGB chairman Aleksandr Shelepin and Politburo member Aleksei Kirichenko, then the second in the party hierarchy after Nikita Khrushchev.”
Adds Pacepa: “In 1971, the KGB sent Kirill — who had just been elevated to the rank of archimandrite — to Geneva as emissary of the Russian Orthodox Church to the World Council of Churches.... Kirill/Mikhailov’s main task was to involve the WCC in spreading the new liberation theology throughout Latin America.
In 1975, the KGB was able to infiltrate Kirill into the Central Committee of the WCC — a position he held until he was “elected” patriarch of Russia, in 2009.
Not long after he joined the Central Committee, Kirill reported to the KGB: ‘Now the agenda of the WCC [World Council of Churches] is also our agenda.’”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=2990
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August, 2006
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North Korea Builds an Orthodox Church
The first-ever Russian Orthodox church will open in Pyongyang, North Korea this weekend.
It’s an odd project considering that freedom of religion exists almost exclusively on paper in the closed communist country.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il is supposed to be a communist atheist.
So why has he made promoting the Russia Orthodox Church his latest pet project?
On August 13, the country’s first Orthodox church is to be opened in the capital city of Pyongyang.
Russian Metropolitan Bishop Kyrill, second in command within the Church after the Patriarch, will travel to Pyongyang to christen the new house of worship. ...”
KGB ‘Christians’: Putin, Stalin, and the KGB’s History of Manipulating the Orthodox Church
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/01/11/kgb-christians-putin-stalin-kgbs-history-manipulating-orthodox-church/
Thousands fast after Putin signs law banning evangelism outside of churches https://www.foxnews.com/world/thousands-fast-after-putin-signs-law-banning-evangelism-outside-of-churches
Putin signs the law that bans evangelism https://evangelicalfocus.com/world/1771/Putin-signed-the-law-that-bans-evangelism
Vladimir Putin: Russian prostitutes are the best in the world https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/vladimir-putin-russian-prostitutes-are-the-best-in-the-world-a3443261.html
Putin Erects Statue in Moscow to Honor Fidel Castro https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2022/12/10/putin-erects-statue-in-moscow-to-honor-fidel-castro-n2616972
Back in the USSR: Lenin statues and Soviet flags reappear in Russian-controlled cities https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/23/back-in-the-ussr-lenin-statues-and-soviet-flags-reappear-in-russian-controlled-cities
A very tiny number of Russians even show up for that special day and Christmas, estimates run as low as 1%.
“In Russia the Orthodox celebrations of last Christmas, according to police assessments, were attended by 1 million 400 thousand people, equal to 1% of the population. It is a clearly lower figure than that of 5 or 10 years ago; however not everyone accepts it: some say the police didn’t count correctly; in any case, no type of calculation records a presence of the faithful higher than 3%, and in one of the major holidays.”
Right. The Russian Orthodox Church, which vehemently opposes gay marriage, sex changes on kids or anyone else, drag queen story hour and favors laws banning LGBT propaganda, is left-wing.
Russia and Russian Orthodox Church are INFINITELY more socially conservative and adhere to Biblical morality than this country is as a whole. We're the ones with churches the celebrate homosexuality and abortion until birth.
Never mind that Franklin Graham said this:
“Isn’t it sad, though, that America’s own morality has fallen so far that on this issue—protecting children from any homosexual agenda or propaganda—Russia’s standard is higher than our own?”
During the Soviet era, all religious bodies had to be registered and approved by the state, so the state could also control them. Some Baptists were suspect as tools of American capitalism because John D. Rockefeller, a Baptist, funded a lot of foreign missions. Religious bodies that, on faith and theological principles, refused to register, operated underground. I didn’t realize that that policy survived the Soviets.
I am Orthodox, but I have to agree that what a lot of people say about the Russian Orthodox Church— or at least its leadership — being a tool of the Soviets —has a great deal of truth. St. Tikhon, the last Patriarch of Moscow before the Soviets, sent a message to the Russian Church in diaspora, informing them of the dire situation for the church in Russia and warning them not to believe anything else that came from the Moscow Patriarchate. That led to a defacto self-governing church in America, and the formation of the anti-communist Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. There were some parishes in America that continued to be loyal to the Moscow Patriarchate, that were known to be communist fronts.
Stalin lifted his boot a bit off the ROC and other religious bodies during WW2 so he could get everyone on board for Mother Russia.
“..a presence of the faithful higher than 3%, and in one of the major holidays.”...”
interesting - any information as to the percentage of Russians who are Muslim??
link please.
Easter in Russia (use translator) - https://ria.ru/...//ria.ru/20240505/putin-1943911498.html
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Irrelevant to my post or the facts about Russia and church attendance.
You should look into reducing the size of your senseless gifs, or even replacing them with some useful text.
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“There’s no religion in Russia”
Not true. I was in Moscow a few years ago, and got handed gospel tracts. I know Christians who live there. I have not heard of any persecution happening.
The article attached to this post is Time magazine....source not to be trusted. Propaganda.
Here in America so many people seem to see Russia as if it is still the Soviet Union. It is not.
Russia is the bogyman the American left.
Weird, you think these pictures mean something?
Were you handed a tract by a Protestant or an Evangelical?
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