Christianity

Ukraine calls head of Serbian Church an “enemy”

In a tit for tat move, the Ukrainian government has added the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church to its doxing website “Mirotvorets” (“Peacemaker”), labeling him an “enemy of Ukraine.”
It seems Ukrainian nationalistic politicians and religious schismatics didn’t appreciate that he referred to them as enemies of all Slavic peoples, as The Duran previously reported.

‘Ukrainian politicians are enemies to all Slavs’ — head of Serbian Church

The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church had some choice words recently for the nationalistic agitators who are driving deep divisions into suffering Ukraine.
The suffering caused by Ukrainian politicians, terrorists, and schismatics is not confined simply to the Slavic nation, but rather the perpetrators are enemies “also of all Orthodox Slavic peoples and the entire Orthodox world,” His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia resolutely declared at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral on Wednesday.

Moldovan President SLAMS police who tear gassed anti-LGBT protestors

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has expressed his outrage against the authorities and police of the capital city of Chișinău, condemning them for preventing a protest against an LGBT march on Saturday, ensuring the pride procession was able to make its way along its entire 3 km course.
In his view, “the behavior of the police, who took measures against those who wanted to prevent the march, is unacceptable.”

Pope Francis SHOCKS Catholics: OK to be gay

Pope Francis reportedly told a gay man that “God made you that way…” according to a report from the Spanish newspaper El Pais. This article, released on 21 May, 2018, covers the account of a man named Juan Carlos Cruz, who was victimized sexually by a Chilean Roman Catholic priest. Mr. Cruz got to not only speak with the Pope, but actually spent a week at the Pope’s residence in Santa Marta.

How Vietnam War Protests Helped Mold America’s Modern Christian Right

In May of 1968, a high-profile trial began in Boston that dramatically illustrated a larger phenomenon fueling the rise of conservative Christianity in the United States.
Five men had been charged with conspiracy for encouraging Americans to evade the draft. One of the prominent defendants in the trial was a Presbyterian minister and Yale University chaplain, William Sloane Coffin Jr..
Coffin, like many ministers, vehemently opposed the Vietnam War, but many ordinary churchgoers supported it. This disagreement divided denominations.

The Origins of Violence? Slavery, Extractivism and War

And the land, hitherto a common possession like the light of the sun and the breezes, the careful surveyor now marked out with long-drawn boundary lines. Not only were corn and needful foods demanded of the rich soil, but men bored into the bowels of the earth, and the wealth she had hidden and covered with Stygian darkness was dug up, an incentive to evil. And now noxious iron and gold more noxious still were produced: and these produced war – for wars are fought with both – and rattling weapons were hurled by bloodstained hands.

How Vladimir Putin’s and Donald Trump Exploit the Rise of Nationalist Christianity

Russia has re-elected its self-styled leader and saviour, whatever his weaknesses – even his sins. The revelation that the Russian government may have ordered a former spy’s poisoning should provoke international outrage from Vladimir Putin’s fellow Christians, particularly as the holiest Christian festival of Easter approaches

Christians raise Cross over ruins of Church in Deir ez-Zor after destroying ISIS

The Power of the Precious and Life-giving Cross – as Syrian (and Russian) Orthodox Christians say – shines victoriously over a ruined church in Deir ez-Zor, or perhaps more appropriate, Novi-Stalingrad, as Syrians have come to see the siege of Deir ez-Zor as their Stalingrad.
Fort Russ has shared beautiful photos, as they keenly point out that: