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Apr 3, 2024 · April 3, 2024. The Russian Orthodox Church has declared the invasion of Ukraine a holy war that puts Russia at odds with “satanic” West. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP. The Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow ramped up the rhetoric over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine when it adopted a document declaring it a “holy war.”
Jan 31, 2023 · When Russia invaded Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) did not hesitate to throw its support behind the Kremlin’s war against a neighboring Orthodox nation. Far from wavering, that support has only grown more strident as the war progressed.
“Just as the One Lord God is the indivisible Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” this monk fortold, “so Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus together are Holy Rus’ and cannot be...
Apr 10, 2024 · Russia, Ukraine, and the Coming Schism in Orthodox Christianity - The Atlantic. May 2024 Issue. Explore. Global. Clash of the Patriarchs. A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political...
Sep 26, 2022 · About 34 percent of Orthodox believers in Ukraine identify with the main Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which in 2019 was officially recognized as separate from the Moscow Patriarchate by...
Sep 26, 2022 · Sept 26 (Reuters) - The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that Russian soldiers who die in the war against Ukraine will be cleansed of all their sins, days after President...
Apr 14, 2022 · 14 April 2022. By Aleem Maqbool, religion editor,Chernivtsi, western Ukraine. BBC. Father Nicolay Pluzhnik. The Russian Orthodox Church has echoed the rhetoric of the Kremlin in justifying...
