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OCCUPIED UKRAINE: One Berdyansk pastor and two priests in Russian detention
Armed Russian soldiers seized Pastor Serhiy Karpenko of Berdyansk's Vefil Church on 12 December. Russia's National Guard seized Berdyansk's two...
OCCUPIED UKRAINE: “Espionage” trial for disappeared Ukrainian Orthodox priest
The Russian occupation forces in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Region disappeared Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) priest Fr Kostiantyn Maksimov in May...
OCCUPIED UKRAINE: Religious leaders seized, tortured; churches, mosques closed; no news of seized Baptist couple
Following Russia's renewed invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian and Russian-backed officials and soldiers have in newly-occupied areas...
OCCUPIED UKRAINE: “There is no one to replace the arrested priests”
Russia's National Guard seized two priests in Russian-occupied Berdyansk on 16 November. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Donetsk Exarchate denies...
Plight of Ukrainian Christians in Occupied Russia Territories
http://youtu.be/M_wnAB18eV8 CBN's George Thomas reports live from the International Religious Freedom Summit. CBN News. Because Truth Matters™ ...
OCCUPIED UKRAINE: “Disappeared” Greek Catholic priests in Russian Investigation Prisons?
One of two Greek Catholic priests Russian occupation forces seized in November 2022 in the Ukrainian city of Berdyansk appears to have been...
OCCUPIED UKRAINE: Masked soldiers seize Mariupol pastor and wife
Church members and relatives have been unable to find out who is holding Council of Churches Baptist Pastor Leonid Ponomaryov and his wife Tatyana,...
OCCUPIED UKRAINE: Priest killed within two days of Russian detention
On 15 February, the bruised body (possibly with a bullet-wound to the head) of 59-year-old Fr Stepan Podolchak of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was...