🇩🇪⚡️ - Germany's "Catholic" Synod has voted in favor of blessing gay "marriages", with 38 out of 58 bishops voting in support of a motion allowing them to be blessed. The Pope has previously condemned the idea gay "marriages" can be blessed, and has rebuked bishops' conferences in Europe for considering blessing them.

🇺🇦⚡️ - An Orthodox priest writing under condition of anonymity said in a statement that "the [Kiev] authorities took the Soviet model of 100 years ago and are applying it to the faithful of the canonical Orthodox Church. We have no rights, we have no protection, nobody wants to help us anymore."

Pray for the persecuted Christians in the Ukraine.

🇵🇪⚡️ - Pedro Castillo's jail sentence has been increased to 36 months.

⚡️ - A Twitter bluecheck had an interesting geopolitical take.

⚡️ - Parra also said that Poland would only become a superpower if its center-right and vaguely Christian Law and Justice Party was replaced with a government that supported "freedom and democratic checks" (read: Westernization).

⚡️ - In this admin's view, Parra is wrong, but there is a grain of truth to what he says.
Poland was a superpower until the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and was a significant regional power under Piłsudski, during the Second Republic. Like Turkey, there is no reason why Poland could not become a geopolitical pole in its own right in opposition to both Russia and the West - and doing that was a goal of the Polish government for a long time, as can be seen by Poland's attempt to create an "Intermarium" federation in the 1920s and the Visegrad pact in the 1990s.
The issue with people like Parra is that they believe Poland can become a superpower by embracing the West further and reaffirming its membership of NATO. (Many of these people, incidentally, believe in the myth of a "based Poland".) If Poland wants to form its own alliance and live up to the expectations some people online have of it, it will have to stop submitting to a rootless, "Western" clique of financiers and will have to readopt the Catholic society its government has slowly been abandoning in exchange for Western support.
Poland's future lies either with Moscow, Washington, or St John Paul II. The question is which of those options Poland will choose.

SBU confiscated icons with the royal family of Nicholas II from the priests of the UOC.

This was stated by the rector of St. Tikhvin Cathedral in Lisichansk, Archpriest Andrey Pavlenko.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ - Vladimir Zelensky has said he will officially explore the possibility of renaming Russia to "Muscovy". In response, Medvedev said that Ukraine should change its name to "Bandera's Reich".

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡️ - Albin Kurti, "president" of "Kosovo" has refused to create the Association of Serb Municipalities - an autonomous Serb entity within his "country".
Belgrade has always said that the establishment of an autonomous province for Kosovo Serbs is a requirement for any further normalization of relations between it and Priština.
In other words, Kurti has just shot himself in the foot.

🇷🇸🇽🇰— Vucic: "The community of Serb Municipalities is a condition without which one cannot live without, and I have repeated this in every discussion [with the EU]. I'm going to [the meeting] to tell them this."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian authorities have announced mandatory evacuation in Kharkov oblast.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Sources are claiming that Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, northwest of Artyomovsk, has been liberated by PMC Wagner.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- A secret Command Center operated by NATO forces in Kiev was destroyed by a Russian hypersonic missile during Russia’s strikes.

🇮🇷🇷🇺⚡️- Iran has concluded its negotiations to purchase the advanced 5th generation Su-57 "Felon" fighter jet

🇮🇱🇸🇾⚡️- Reports of explosions in Masyaf, Syria

🇮🇱🇸🇾⚡️- Syrian observatory reports multiple Israeli airstrikes across Syria