Baptist-led church council in Kyiv warns: Russia must be condemned or real peace won’t come
Clergy say “peace” without justice only rewards atrocity and emboldens future aggression.
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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.
Russia tried to wipe out Ukraine’s Protestants. Their pastors struck back from D.C.
Hunted by Russia in occupied Ukraine, evangelical Christians became Kyiv's secret weapon in Congress, swaying US Republicans where Zelenskyy's efforts fell flat.
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.
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.
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.
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,…
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…
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…
“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…
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”…
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…
Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses continues in Russia despite Putin’s statements
When Vladimir Putin said at his press conference last month that he saw no justification for attacks on…
With Donbas occupation, Russia brought religious persecution alien to Ukraine: report
Back in spring-summer 2014, Russian-backed forces took control of the territory which is now officially referred to as "certain…
Four Crimean Tatars detained in new wave of religious persecution
Victims of the Russian “police of thought” On 2 October, masked Russian security officers raided the house of…
Moscow’s campaign against Jehovah’s Witnesses a threat to all believers in Russia
The Putin regime has had undeserved success in presenting itself as a defender of Christianity, but its campaign…
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…
Putin follows Hitler and Stalin in seeking to repress Jehovah’s Witnesses
In declaring the Jehovah’s Witnesses an extremist organization, Vladimir Putin’s regime is following in the steps of Hitler…
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…
Three religious developments in Eurasia with more than religious implications
A Ukrainian bill that would make it easier for congregations to shift from the Moscow patriarchate to the…