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Russians who have nothing to do with the war are now going to be treated like the Japanese in America during WWII.

The Russkis are the new Japs.
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⚠️Russian Orthodox Church has just been vandalised in Auckland New Zealand where Fr Vladimir Boikov (Uncle of the Aussie Cossack) is the priest.
⚠️Ukrainian radicals left threatening hate messages against Putin and spilled red paint over the cross on the doors of the church.
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And so it begins...
On Wednesday, March 2, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon sent the following letter to His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and all Ukraine.

Your Beatitude, Dear Brother and Concelebrant in the Lord’s Mysteries:

During this time of unimaginable difficulty, I want to assure you of my prayers for you and for Ukraine. Please know that the Holy Synod, together with the clergy and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America are praying to the Almighty God bring this war to a just and quick end. May he also console the grieving, the wounded, the displaced, and the suffering. May he also keep eternally in his memory all those who have died in this unjust war.

Yours in Christ,
+Tikhon
Archbishop of Washington
Metropolitan of All America and Canada

https://www.oca.org/news/headline-news/metropolitan-tikhon-sends-letter-support-metropolitan-onufriy
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Western Ukraine Attempts to Ban Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church

— "Bishop Savva of Zelenograd, Deputy chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate, pointed out western Ukraine's attempts to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).

Volodymyr Remenyak, Head of the Gorodok City Council in the Lviv Region, signed a decree which was later published on Facebook. The document, dated February 28, is called "On the prohibition of the activities of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate on the territory of the Gorodok City Council in the Lviv region." The activity of the canonical Church in the decree is described as "presenting a danger to the national security of Ukraine."


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“Those who have been attacking the Church are the ones who receive European financing. Now I wonder, should we reconsider our choice of the Euro-Atlantic path when we made it? Having escaped the grips of the communist regime, we were elated, then cuddled and lured by Europe. Should we not open our eyes? If European values boil down to hatred toward the Church, and trampling upon traditions and family purity, then we reject that sort of Europe.”

🇬🇪 Metropolitan Anton of Vani and Baghdati
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🇲🇩 Moldova now applies to become a European Union vassal state.

https://t.me/disclosetv/7199
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"We are asked a little bit of everything: to give up our Christian origin; to get rid of our historical, traditional, national and Christian values which, in the opinion of some Moldovans europeanized to the bone marrow, have become obsolete... that they are only fashionable and are only good to throw away. It is proposed to us not to call our parents MOTHER and FATHER, because of nothing else, but those who have same-sex parents - two men or two women - do not feel comfortable. A great shame, people! All these, my brethren, are that which form the foundation of our existence as a people of God, as a Christian entity!"

🇲🇩 Archbishop Marchel of Bălți and Făleşti
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The Eurasian powers should start their own Olympics and sports tournaments if they're going to get kicked out of all the preexisting ones while the US, Britain, France, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey get away with killing hundreds of thousands of people every single year without even a minor sanction applied against them.

It would also be worth providing Russian/Eurasian alternatives to established social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Reddit among others. And I don't mean inactive boomer tech sites like VK. Now is the perfect opportunity to build a truly parallel system to counter the digital Tower of Babel that the Great Satan (America) reigns supreme over.
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🇺🇦 Head of Ukrainian Orthodox Church: Let's work hard in Lent to end war

— "With the blessing of Metropolitan Onuphry, the faithful of the UOC will read the Gospel during Great Lent and make prostrations to end the war.

On the Great Lent eve, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine, addressed the faithful with a blessing for a special prayer rule for the sake of ending the war and establishing peace in Ukrainian land, reports the UOC Information and Educational Department.

According to the Archpastor, “the good prospect of Great Lent is to learn to live in peace with God and in harmony with one another”.


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🇺🇦 “I bless all the children of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church during Great Lent every day to read one chapter of the Holy Gospel and make three prostrations to end the war, to overcome hostility in our long-suffering Ukrainian land and preserve peace in the world.” — Metropolitan Onuphry
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— This is a positive development. Keep up your prayers, brothers and sisters, let us hope this war ends soon! 🇺🇦🇷🇺🙏🏻🙏🏻
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"At a time when humanity still faces many challenges from the unprecedented global phenomenon of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now confronted by another global crisis.

As Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarch in the United Kingdom, my diverse flock includes devout Christians from both Ukraine and Russia. The heartbreak we feel for them and their loved ones abroad during this tragic time cannot be put into words. The events of the past few days bring deep pain and sadness to all our hearts.

The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain embraces a common expression of Orthodox Christian unity that transcends any ethnic, linguistic, and cultural divisions. Thus, together with our collective call for an immediate ceasefire, we beseech all the Christians in the United Kingdom to come together in unity and increase their prayers and special supplications for the God-loving Ukrainian faithful, as well as for all people around the world who are experiencing the scourge of armed conflict.

May the black clouds of despair, violence, and hatred soon dissipate in order for the heavenly Light from above to shine brightly down on the pious faithful in Ukraine."


🇬🇧 Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain

https://www.orthodoxianewsagency.gr/foreignnews/his-eminence-archbishop-nikitas-on-ukraine/
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Forwarded from Russophobia Watch 🔎
🇨🇦 The Russian Orthodox Church of St. Sophia in Victoria, B.C. was vandalized by anti-Russian thugs earlier this morning. Red paint was splattered on the door to the parish.

This follows a similar russophobic attack on a Russian church in Calgary, a few days ago.

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🇺🇦 UOC Сhancellor urges clergy to keep churches open around the clock

— "Metropolitan Anthony of Boryspil and Brovarsky called on the priesthood to make the temples of the UOC a home for the maximum number of refugees and victims of the war.

Metropolitan Anthony of Boryspil and Brovary, the Chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, appealed to the clergy to keep churches open around the clock in order to provide spiritual and material assistance to the maximum number of refugees and victims of hostilities, reports the Synodal Information and Education Department of the UOC."

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