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Yes, Tucker, Christians are really killed in Ukraine — for refusing to spy for Putin

While Russian propaganda claims Ukraine persecutes Christians, evidence from occupied territories tells a different story: pastors are tortured with electrodes and needles for refusing to transform their confession booths into FSB listening posts.

byVira Kravchuk

The sign says in Ukrainian: "The Donetsk Diocese of The Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate." Photo: Andriy Bashtovyy / RadioSvoboda.Org (RFE/RL)

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Donbas occupiers doing to Ukrainian Church what they accuse Kyiv of doing to Moscow one

The so-called "Donetsk Peoples Republic" is preparing to liquidate all structures loyal to the autocephalous Orthodox Church of…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian jailers aren’t letting Protestants visit their imprisoned co-religionists

One of the fundamental requirements of the Christian faith is that believers should visit people in jail. Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian Orthodox priest blesses a flag with a sign "The Orthodox Church or Death" (Image: politros.com)

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Russia, other former Soviet republics persecuting Christians, new Notre Dame report says

Vladimir Putin has proudly claimed and all too many in the West accept at face value that he…

byPaul A. Goble

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

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Religious affairs in Russia now under control of security services, Lunkin says

Roman Lunkin, president of the Russian Experts Guild on Religion and Law, says that “religious policy in Russia…

byPaul A. Goble