Posted on 04/05/2022 6:45:39 AM PDT by GonzoII
ROME — Ukraine’s war of resistance against the Russian invader is a spiritual battle against Satan, declared Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk Monday.“A mountain of corpses, rivers of blood, a sea of tears — these are the three words that today describe the icon of contemporary Ukraine,” Archbishop Shevchuk stated in a video message Monday morning.
Ukraine continues to suffer from Russia’s “missile terrorism,” the archbishop said, as every night “our cities are fired upon by Russian cruise missiles, which destroy houses, kill people, destroy the critical infrastructure of the economy, the economy of Ukraine.”
Yet Ukraine’s heroic resistance “shows the whole world that there are some values — such as love for the homeland, love for God and neighbor — for which it is worth giving your life, because it is the road to immortality,” Shevchuk said.
The archbishop went on to insist that Ukraine’s battle “is a spiritual struggle against evil, against the devil and his servants. And we see that all the rules of spiritual invisible warfare today are the reality of the Christians of Ukraine....”
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"Yet Ukraine’s heroic resistance ‘shows the whole world that there are some values — such as love for the homeland, love for God and neighbor — for which it is worth giving your life, because it is the road to immortality,’ Shevchuk said."
He sounds like a leader. God bless him!
Russia has more Christians living there than the Ukraine.
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