And that answers the question about restrictions and possible persecution and shows how fragile freedoms are in Russia. I have a feeling that Russia will do what Russia has always done, and will not come dowm on the side of freedom. I understand Putin doesn’t like it when Orthodox clergy have spoken out against the Ukraine war, either. Thanks for posting.
What Putin’s people here either don’t see or pretend to not see, even as they post that Putin’s government is building one denomination’s expensive and grandiose church buildings that will remain empty, is that Putin does all his religious theatrics for that one government denomination as a way to suppress bible reading Christianity from breaking out among the people.
It is a suppression of Christianity, it is the practice of dampening it and preventing its growth and practice, yet they think (or pretend to) that it is an example of true Christian faith and practice, a shining beacon for Jesus and the Bible.