Everyone knows about Ukraine's honesty is probably why.
Posted on 08/21/2024 8:39:55 PM PDT by Cronos
Amid ideological hurdles facing Russia in occupied regions in Ukraine, evangelical churches are targets for Russian soldiers to allegedly root out anti-Russian sentiment, if not levy allegations of American havens for "spies."
"You don't run a church: You run a nest of American spies," Russian soldiers who stormed Melitopol's Church of God's Grace told its Baptist pastor Mykhailo Brytsyn during interrogation after an armed takeover
The evangelical churches are being targeted because the ideology is not in line with Putin's favored Russian Orthodox Church as Putin attempts to turn contested regions into full-hearted Russian territories after his years long war on the South and East of Ukraine.
there have been dozens of evangelical pastors abducted, tortured, exiled, and killed in an attempt at a religious whitewashing of ideological diversions from Russian orthodoxy.
There have been at least 30 Ukrainian clergy killed, 26 taken as hostages, according to a February report by the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance.
"They have to control everything," Ukrainian-American Baptist pastor Dmytro Bodyu, who was a hostage for eight days but lived to be returned, told the Journal. "If you're a Christian, you are freethinking, and can discern what is good and what is bad.
"In a country like Russia, they don't like that."
Russian denies targeting churches for religious persecution, countering it is a Ukraine narrative for its own religious war on the Russian Orthodox Church in contest regions, according to the Journal.
The evangelical church rose to be influential in eastern Ukraine after its breaking from the former Soviet Union, another mark that might create Russian animosity.
"The fear of America disappeared, and it happened very fast," Hennadiy Mokhnenko, a Ukrainian Baptist pastor told the Journal. "The doors opened from the East and the West, and a breeze passed right through Ukraine."
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You’re about 5 years late, but thank you anyway.
Russian forces captured, killed at least 29 religious leaders since Ukraine War began
Us Russian trolls who have been embedded on FR for the last 20 years or so, waiting for The Special Military Operation of 2022, like to see "new blood" pimping for the Ukraine...
Everyone knows about Ukraine's honesty is probably why.
Putin signs the law that bans evangelism
Vladimir Putin: Russian prostitutes are the best in the world
Putin signs 'fake' news law that would jail journalists over war reports
Russia bans media outlet that published Vladimir Putin scoops
Putin Erects Statue in Moscow to Honor Fidel Castro
Back in the USSR: Lenin statues and Soviet flags reappear in Russian-controlled cities
Putin Invokes Soviet Heroes Lenin, Stalin, Says Russia 'Created' Ukraine
Meanwhile this has also been what has been going on from past to present, so this article is just consistent with long standing policy:
Thousands fast after Putin signs law banning evangelism outside of churches
Putin signs the law that bans evangelism
Vladimir Putin: Russian prostitutes are the best in the world
Putin signs 'fake' news law that would jail journalists over war reports
Russia bans media outlet that published Vladimir Putin scoops
Putin Erects Statue in Moscow to Honor Fidel Castro
Back in the USSR: Lenin statues and Soviet flags reappear in Russian-controlled cities
Putin Invokes Soviet Heroes Lenin, Stalin, Says Russia 'Created' Ukraine
Five years? Pffft!
We used to try to make it with a FR post on to the Drudge Report main page in 98.
I did it twice in early 98 - but I was quicker on the trigger back in those days, and a little more hungry. 
How would you characterize the Holy Roman Empire?
Sure they are.
Yes...I was a teenager then...now I’m in my 40s...
time flies.
>> I’m going by the article
The source is dubious. That makes you gullible. Do you take pride in being gullible?
The source is dubious.
How so? Any news source described as "far right" by the folks at Wikipedia sounds like a recommendation to me.
American organizations, especially social ones, operating in Ukraine at this point are most definitely controlled by intelligence organizations.
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You Azovites are certainly angry about the Kursk firebag, aren't you?
The Russian Orthodox church was taken over by the KGB during WWII by order of Stalin. It's just a KGB/FSB propaganda organization. Patriarch Kirill gets his wealth by selling tobacco. GB
>> your post here seems to support government cracking down on religion
no, but cracking down on superficially plausible, sure
Kremlin's war on Evangelicals is aimed at reshaping occupied areas in its own authoritarian image?
Pootie just uses Orthodoxy by getting Patriarch Kirill to bless weapons used to killEastern Orthodox believer.
Kiry —> the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as well as the Russian Orthodox Church both believe in the same core Eastern Orthodox dogma and doctrine.
Calling either one of them “false” - from an Orthodox point of view is sheer nonsense.
The old-fashioned way!
Hope it's the Good Stuff. I like tobacco. 
Great to know. Looks like our education system has been manipulated even when we were in school.
Now it seems the evidence is piling up that the dating of the Egyptian era is wrong. Fascinating times.
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