Where is outcry of western MSM and politicians?
On the individual level, Protestants as well as Catholics Muslims and non- Moscow patriarchate Orthodox have frequently been arrested and interrogated under torture. They have endured confiscation of personal property threats to their families and mock executions. Some faithful have been abducted with no accounting of their status to date and some have been murdered.
On the institutional level, in Russian occupied territories, minority faithful, including Protestants, have been subjected to raids during worship services with the added intimidation of worshippers having their names and passports recorded. Churches have been searched, ransacked, looted, and vandalized. Baptists and Pentecostal pastors have been pressured to transfer their affiliation from church associations based in Kyiv to those based in Moscow. Russian occupation authorities and pro-Russian separatists have required churches to undergo registration with hundreds of Protestant churches closed after failing to receive official recognition. Other churches have been torched by arsonists or have been destroyed by Russian missile attacks and many churches that have survived every other form of assault have been confiscated for use as military bases. Other indignities have included propaganda campaigns against disfavored churches and the counterintuitive deliberate destruction of Bibles and other Christian literature by Russian troops at the behest of a regime quick to boast of its championing of traditional Christian values. And we should be aware that as harsh as restrictions are for minority faiths in Russia proper the Draconian regime imposed upon them in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine is dramatically worse.
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On the individual level, Protestants as well as Catholics Muslims and non- Moscow patriarchate Orthodox have frequently been arrested and interrogated under torture. They have endured confiscation of personal property threats to their families and mock executions. Some faithful have been abducted with no accounting of their status to date and some have been murdered.
On the institutional level, in Russian occupied territories, minority faithful, including Protestants, have been subjected to raids during worship services with the added intimidation of worshippers having their names and passports recorded. Churches have been searched, ransacked, looted, and vandalized. Baptists and Pentecostal pastors have been pressured to transfer their affiliation from church associations based in Kyiv to those based in Moscow. Russian occupation authorities and pro-Russian separatists have required churches to undergo registration with hundreds of Protestant churches closed after failing to receive official recognition. Other churches have been torched by arsonists or have been destroyed by Russian missile attacks and many churches that have survived every other form of assault have been confiscated for use as military bases. Other indignities have included propaganda campaigns against disfavored churches and the counterintuitive deliberate destruction of Bibles and other Christian literature by Russian troops at the behest of a regime quick to boast of its championing of traditional Christian values. And we should be aware that as harsh as restrictions are for minority faiths in Russia proper the Draconian regime imposed upon them in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine is dramatically worse.
Russia’s Religious Persecution and Misinformation in Ukraine
Russia’s religious persecution in Ukraine against various religious groups that do not align with the Kremlin's political agenda is staggering. Please join the Center for Strategic & International Studies for a crucial discussion in order to shed light on the issue and seek practical solutions...
