Religious persecution Archives

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WSJ: Russia aims to erase evangelical churches from occupied Ukraine

Aiming to reshape occupied areas, Russia cracks down on evangelical churches in occupied Ukraine, seen as instruments of US influence, while bolstering the Russian Orthodox Church.

byYuri Zoria

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

Obey to pray: Russia’s ruthless crackdown on faith in occupied Ukraine

From a Protestant pastor imprisoned for his American citizenship, to an Orthodox bishop pressured to embrace the "Russian World," to an evangelical church shuttered after sheltering the displaced, the stories of religious persecution in occupied Ukraine are as diverse as they are devastating.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia destroying churches, persecuting clergy in occupied Ukraine, church leader warns

Russia's full-scale Ukraine invasion extinguishing religious freedom through church destruction, clergy arrests/killings, prompting church leader's appeal for unblocked US aid.

byYuri Zoria

This political cartoon by an anonymous Russian artist accurately represents Russia of Putin's rule. It is a post-communist "prison of nations" which replaced the cult of the Party with the cult of Putin and uses the Russian Orthodox church as a major propaganda and manipulation tool and a convenient cover for Russian spy services abroad.

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Moscow’s labeling of Protestant groups with Latvian and Ukrainian links ‘undesirable’ has other Protestants in Russia worried

Russian officials say these fears are overblown and that the other Protestant groups have nothing to worry about,…

byPaul A. Goble

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Crimean Tatars in the crosshairs of Russia’s war on Muslims

On 16 September, seven more Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula which Russia occupied in 2014 were predictably…

byAlya Shandra

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Russian authorities stage largest ever one-day raid against Jehovah’s witnesses

Not only does this bring to more than 1100 the number of searches and seizures the Russian authorities…

byPaul A. Goble

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Crimea

“They can destroy buildings, but not the spirit,” – Crimean Archbishop on Russia’s religious persecution

Russia continues to oppress Ukrainian citizens in the occupied Crimea not only for their civil stance, but also…

byOlena Makarenko

Russian riot police surround Crimean Tatar homes, March 2019. Photo: Crimean Solidarity

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CTRC: 35 Crimean Tatars arrested for religious belief since start of 2019

Krasnohvardiysk “Hizb ut–Tahrir Case” (February 14, 2019): Arsen Abkhairov; Eskender Abdulhaniev; Rustem Emiruseinov; Second Simferopol “Hizb ut-Tahrir Case”…

byUkrainian media sources