Tag: Kiev

Ukraine Baptist church closed by separatists

October 17, 2018 Ukraine Baptists, Churches, Donetsk, Kiev, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine

The self-declared government of the Donetsk People's Republic has made Russia’s Orthodox Church its official faith and Protestant and Catholics are seen as agents for the west or spies. (Photo: Getty Images)

A Baptist church in Ukraine’s south-eastern town of Novoazovsk was forced to close by a separatist group last month, reports Oslo-based news service Forum 18. Novoazovsk is a seaside town in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), eastern Ukraine. The DPR, along with the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), both backed by . . . Read More

Raids on ‘illegal’ worship meetings in rebel-held Ukraine

August 9, 2018 Ukraine Baptists, Churches, Crimea, Kiev, Luhansk, Orthodox, Pentecostals, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

In the battle for Luhansk between Ukrainian forces and rebels in 2014, churches like this one in Pervomaisk, some 50 km west of Luhansk, were also attacked. (Photo: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

A Pentecostal church in the rebel-held Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine was raided by armed men on 6 August, the latest in a series of raids on religious communities, reports Oslo-based news service Forum 18. The raid took place during a worship meeting at the Grace Church of God Pentecostal . . . Read More

Ukraine Christians living in fear

March 18, 2015 Ukraine Catholics, Donetsk, Kiev, Protestants, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine

Christians in eastern Ukraine fear growing persecution from pro-Russian separatists who have declared religious groups not affiliated to the Russian Orthodox Church to be their potential enemy. Since the Russian-backed rebels established the Donetsk People’s Republic in April 2014, their self-declared government made Russia’s Orthodox Church their official faith. The . . . Read More

Russian takeover of Crimea leads to inter-Church tensions

June 9, 2014 Ukraine Crimea, Donetsk, Kiev, Patriarch Kirill, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Soviet Union, Sunni, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Reports of violence and intimidation by pro-Russian groups against non-Russian Orthodox Christians in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine are beginning to emerge. According to Ukraine’s Liga News website, on June 1, a group of armed men in traditional Cossack clothes attacked the Holy Virgin Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kiev Patriarchate (the UOC-KP) . . . Read More

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Ukraine Baptist church closed by separatists

Raids on ‘illegal’ worship meetings in rebel-held Ukraine

Ukraine Christians living in fear

Russian takeover of Crimea leads to inter-Church tensions

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