The point is, will Ukraine ban the Christian religion? If that is what their goal is, they will ultimately fail for sure. If this is simply an outward change in names and the structure of it, okay.
Politics, War, and Religion are siblings anyway, so no surprise at all. All are born or thrive on blood and the suffering of the less privileged and vulnerable, so I couldn't care about them banning a religion or, not.
Good description of life.
The point is, will Ukraine ban the Christian religion? If that is what their goal is, they will ultimately fail for sure. If this is simply an outward change in names and the structure of it, okay.
you know one thing with this isreal bombardment and most religious folks stand on the side of Israel is due to the way Christian mainly look at Israel as God's own country that shouldn't be tampered with wich somehow will always seems they are against Ukraine in this context of war whenever they make any sort of statement or action that portrays something close to that. If it's just a ban on a particular Orthodox church like what the articulate says, then they can afford to do it and it will be possible but if it's an agenda to ban the whole of orthodox church or Christians entirely, then they're certainly baint in failing.
Unfortunately People simply look at a name. I could talk all day like I am an Israeli, but would it be true?
The Israel of today is not the Ancient Israel of God from before the Babylonian captivity. And it certainly isn't the Israel of God at the time of Jesus. Why not? Because they rejected God, and the last time they did it - by rejecting Jesus - God made it almost permanent... in 70 AD when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem.
Only if the people of Israel humbly accept Jesus will God possibly make them part of His people again. Meanwhile, anybody else who accepts Jesus as their Savior is accepted into the TRUE and REAL Israel of God, the Heavenly Israel.
The point is, will Ukraine ban the Christian religion? If that is what their goal is, they will ultimately fail for sure. If this is simply an outward change in names and the structure of it, okay.
I hope this answers your prayers, oh ye men of little faith.
It is associated with Ruzzia, more precisely supporting the war and Putin's government. It is such a hypocrite comment that is no wonder comming from a newby. I think it should have been banned much earlier, simply because you cannot have a espionage network working in your backyard when your country is fighting for survival. There is no doubt in my mind that they would give away army positions, movements, people...
It all depends on how much time you want to spend considering this subject, and where you want to look.
Orthodox Church blasts Ukraine for passing legislation suppressing any religion with historical links to Russia
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-08-28-kyiv-bans-orthodox-any-religion-linked-to-russia.htmlThe Ukrainian parliament recently passed a bill that would grant the government the right to ban any church or religious community with suspected ties to Russia. This did not sit well with the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) as it compared the measure to Soviet-style repression.
Around 265 Ukrainian lawmakers on Aug. 20 passed the said legislation, saying that a government commission will assemble a list of "affiliated" organizations whose activities are not allowed.
The said law also outright bans the ROC and all affiliated religious institutions from operating in Ukraine. This paves the way for a historic rupture with an institution that Kyiv has accused of complicity in Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the ROC said in a statement. (Related: Ukrainian parliament approves law BANNING the country’s biggest Orthodox church.)
This was also seen by the religious sector as directly targeted against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). Despite the UOC officially declaring full autonomy from the Moscow Patriarchate in 2022, Kyiv has repeatedly accused the church and its clergy of maintaining ties to Moscow.
"The purpose of this law is to liquidate [the UOC] and all its communities and to forcibly transfer them to other religious organizations," the ROC said, adding that "hundreds of monasteries, thousands of communities, millions of Orthodox believers in Ukraine will find themselves outlawed and will lose their property and place of prayer."
It said that the centralized nature of the law is related to "sad historical precedents such as the persecutions in the Roman Empire during the time of Nero and Diocletian, the so-called de-Christianization of France during the French Revolution of the 18th century, the atheistic repressions in the Soviet Union and the destruction of the Albanian Orthodox Church in the 1960s."
ROC also raised that Kyiv's latest measure comes against the backdrop of a "long-term, slanderous anti-church campaign of the Ukrainian media" which has sought to defame canonical Orthodoxy and to provoke and justify the mass seizure of churches, which have been organized by the radical nationalists, local authorities, special services and law enforcement agencies.
The Synod noted that these seizures often come hand in hand with violence and mass beatings of clergy and churchgoers. UOC clerics have also continued to receive threats from Ukrainian special services, who have fabricated dozens of criminal cases against the pastors, in some cases handing them unjust sentences, the ROC alleged.
In conclusion, the highest authority in the Orthodox church said that it would appeal to international human rights organizations to immediately and objectively respond to the "flagrant persecution of believers in Ukraine."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who immediately signed the bill into law on Saturday, which is incidentally Ukraine’s Independence Day, hailed the vote as a step to strengthen Ukraine's "spiritual independence." He referenced the bill and said, "Ukrainian orthodoxy today is taking a step toward liberation from the devils of Moscow."
Moreover, lawmaker Iryna Herashchenko said it was the issue of national security. "This is a historic vote. Parliament approved legislation which bans a branch of the aggressor country in Ukraine," she wrote on her Telegram account.
Meanwhile, a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) in April 2024 indicated that 83 percent of Ukrainians believed that the state should intervene in the activities of the UOC to one degree or another. In particular, 63 percent believe that the UOC should be completely banned in Ukraine.
Metropolitan Clement, spokesperson of the UOC criticized the bill in a statement on Facebook, describing the law as an attempt "to divide people into right and wrong citizens."
Outside a UOC church in Kyiv, a 47-year-old parishioner said recent moves against his church were stifling. "The government is now creeping into my soul. It is up to me to decide how I pray. They have gone completely crazy," the parishioner, who refused to give his name for fear of reprisal, told CNN.
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