What is up with Russia? Putin has put his entire nation on a war footing declaring to his people that they need to prepare for nuclear war and know where the closest bomb shelters are. Not only that, on October 4 through October 7, he put 40 million of his citizens through a practice war […]
(Vladimir Putin: Wikipedia) A new law in Russia calls Christians who share their faith with non-believers ‘terrorists’ and subjects them to arrest and punishment. Not only that, Putin borrowed a page from the old Communist USSR regime and has outlawed missionary work, house churches, talking about God in public, and has demanded that neighbors […]
(Logo: VK social Network) A Russian is facing a year in prison for denying the existence of God on social media. Here’s the story from NBC News: A Russian faces up to a year in prison for saying "there is no God" during an argument on social media, his lawyers said Wednesday. … Krasnov, […]
(Russian Orthodox Cross) While churches in the West usually oppose any kind of war, leaders in the Russian Orthodox Church not only support Putin’s intervention in Syria but look upon it as a ‘Holy War’ to save the Middle Eastern Christians which make up 10% of the population in Syria. Here’s the story from the […]
(Patriarch Filaret Denysenko: Religious Information Service of Ukraine) Here’s an interesting perspective on the Ukraine/Crimea invasion from the leader of the Ukrainian church. Definitely not something you might run across in the secularized Western press. The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in an address last week condemned Russia’s attack and annexation of Crimea saying […]
(Cover of What Is Scientology?) Police began a a raid and a search of the Church of Scientology offices in Moscow, Russia on Thursday Oct.6. According to the Russian news agency Interfax: The search could be part of a criminal investigation by the Moscow region’s Investigative Committee into the distribution of scientology literature of […]
A Russian court in Moscow has banned Scientology books by L. Ron Hubbard. The Prosecutor General’s office said in a statement today that the Shchyolkovo court has ruled that “What is Scientology?” and other books by L. Ron Hubbard “contain calls for extremist activities.” Accordingly the Scientology books will now be put on the federal […]
On Easter opposing soccer fans chanted a traditional Easter greeting at a Sunday evening soccer match at Moscow Lokomotiv stadium (See video above). According to an Interfax report: “At the beginning of the second half of the match thousands of fans of Dynamo team started chanting "Christ is Risen!" (In Russian) Thousands of fans of […]
