Who knew the investment involved destroying churches not approved of by the Ukrainian government.
How's out investment paying off?
Our “ally”.
I have repeatedly asked what would have happened to a church in the UK connected to the Nazi leadership during World War II, but not one of those who support Russia in this war have answered this question.
The Azovs who took over Ukraine by coup should be viewed as NATO’s Vietcong, their UNITA, their July 26th Movement - a highly ideological, socialist, group using nationalism as a wedge to revolutionary power
And as such, they are engaging in the social-engineering and ideological cleansing that all such radical revolutionaries do.
Meanwhile the "schismatic" Orthodox Church of Ukraine has petitioned several times to be recognized as autocephalous, which is supported by the Patriarch of Constantinople and several Orthodox Churches, but Russian money has prevented it from being generally recognized as such.
So this is typical Russian propaganda where Moscow subverts its own Church and then blames others for the reaction.
Their country was invaded by a ruthless madman and they are siding with the enemy. They are lucky they weren’t all shot.
The Russian military has disproportionately attacked evangelical Christians and “destroyed, damaged, or looted” at least 494 religious buildings, theological institutions, and sacred sites in Ukraine since invading the neighboring nation almost a year ago, according to the Kyiv-based Institute for Religious Freedom (IRF).
A fallen dome lies near the Church of the Holy Mother of God (‘Joy of All Who Sorrow’), destroyed by a Russian aerial bomb last spring, on January 18, 2023 in Bohorodychne, Ukraine.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/february/ukrainian-churches-damaged-russia-war-religious-freedom-irf.html
>> He claims that the churches are allied with Moscow
Of course they are. They’re Orthodox Churches, they’ve always been subservient to the state.
Mess with the Orthodox Church at your own peril. We are funding this activity, just keep that in mind.
Disgusting...By any other name...Ethnic cleansing...
St. Vladimir Church:
Troparion
Holy Prince Vladimir, you were like a merchant in search of fine pearls. By sending servants to Constantinople for the Orthodox Faith, you found Christ, the priceless pearl. He appointed you to be another Paul, washing away in baptism your physical and spiritual blindness. We celebrate your memory, asking you to pray for all Orthodox Christians and for us, your spiritual children.
https://saintvladimir.org/st_vladimir
Zelensky is an antichrist tyrant!!!!
Ein Reich! Ein volk!
The first step in bringing Lemberg and the surrounding provinces back into the Austro-Hungarian empire and the Catholic sphere.
Where do the Conservative Christian Ukraine-supporting Freepers stand on this?
No worries
When western Ukraine goes rump status and polish “peacekeeping” forces are deployed in that formerly polish part of Ukraine they can all go back to being good Catholics anyhow
And given how the Uke Orthodox Church has treated Catholics and Jews when they could get away with it …ask me if I give a tinkers damn