https://coreyjmahler.com/adolf-hitler-christian/
I already touched on this issue a couple of years ago when LPR's Issues Etc. chose not to cover a story of an LCMS minister caught up in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election in favour of Donald Trump.
In late November, Romania's presidential election resulted in Calin Georgescu winning the first round with 23% of the vote. He stood poised to win the second (run-off) round and yet before this could happen, the state intervened and annulled the election. After battles in the courts, it was decided that entirely new elections would take place in May of 2025. It is unclear as to whether or not Georgescu will be allowed to run again - even though he continues to lead in every poll.
We're told the Zelenskiy regime in Ukraine stands for freedom and liberal democracy. In the United States the First Amendment is often invoked as the foundation from which all the other freedoms spring. This would include the freedom of religion and nations like Russia and China are frequently castigated for denying these rights and freedoms. And yet, we see the Zelenskiy government (which embraces the fascist remnants and permutations of the World War II era) denying these basic freedoms to large sections of its population. Kyiv has intervened and has banned expressions of religion that it does not approve of - those elements of Orthodoxy that retain historical and liturgical ties to Russia. Though the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (UOC) denounced the 2022 Russian invasion and has broken formal ties with the Moscow Patriarchate, this is insufficient in the eyes of the Zelenskiy government. Because the UOC was part of the Moscow Patriarchate it must be eradicated.
https://theworld.org/stories/2024/09/06/the-rise-of-an-armenian-church-opposition-leader
Yerevan continues to signal its shift to the West. There's little doubt that Moscow is alarmed as now Armenia seeks to re-orient its nuclear energy programme to the West and to cut out the Russians.
Ankara fears these Western-connected congregations are a Fifth Column, a means of cycling subversion into Turkish society, laundering money, and the like. While mostly exaggeration or simply untrue, I don't doubt there are some instances where this is the case. It may even be that some church leaders don't quite understand who they're affiliating with and where their money is coming from.
As I have often reported, political programmes of subversion and transformation often contain a religious component. Moldova and its place in the West's Anti-Russia campaign has been overshadowed by the war in neighbouring Ukraine as well as other global conflicts, but in fact the campaign is intensifying as Brussels seeks to fast-track both Chișinău and Kyiv into the EU. Whether that actually happens or not is yet to be seen.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/historical-dracula-was-actually-a-committed-christian.html
I've written on more than one occasion about the growth of Right-wing revisionism surrounding the Crusades. When I was growing up the Crusades were universally condemned within Evangelical and Fundamentalist circles. It was but another of the abominable episodes connected to the false Church of Rome.
The sources cited here are not above scrutiny, but given the
history of the Orthodox world, and the present tensions within Georgia and the
Caucasus in general, the intrigues and attempted assassinations are not
altogether surprising. In fact the Georgian Orthodox Church had a similar
incident in 2017.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/30/1201065400/ukraine-russian-orthodox-church-tensions
Whenever these questions are addressed by Western news
outlets the stories are tainted by phony democratic and liberal assumptions
that are imposed on the discussion of the Church. This is true even when the
discussion deals with Protestants or Roman Catholics.
There have been on again off again discussion for the past month or so over Christmas in Ukraine. And once again this has come up in the news cycle as a result of Putin's suggestion of temporary ceasefire for the Orthodox holiday.
It's very sad to read of this couple that has been seemingly
kidnapped by Russian soldiers. Being in Eastern Ukraine, their congregation has
undoubtedly suffered from schism, the horrors and violence of war – and now
this.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-francis-nato-cause-ukraine-invasion-russia/
The comments of Pope Francis on Ukraine are certain to raise
eyebrows. He's not following the dominant (and in many cases mandatory)
narrative that the Western Establishment continues to promote. Initially a darling of the Left, the tenure of
Francis has proven to be complicated and he has alienated many. One wonders if
his ambiguity on the question of Ukraine and his tacit condemnation of US-led
NATO machinations in the region will not turn more of his former allies against
him.
https://www.mnnonline.org/news/russian-invasion-brings-threat-of-persecution-to-ukraine/
The warning that a Russian occupation of Ukraine will
potentially invite forms of persecution is true enough but at the same time it
must be noted that Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), Mission Network News (MNN), and
many other missions and Evangelical organisations like Door of Hope
International (DOHI) are not to be fully trusted. Some radio programs spread
more false information than anything else especially when it comes to politics
and certainly international relations.
In times past you wouldn't have found a Western-connected
Evangelical group sympathizing with the plight and positions of the Orthodox
world and indeed were Djokovic a Russian, the response would have likely been
different.
Whether the US is playing a role in this rift or not – it
fits a script that could have been written in Washington. And as the Cold War
demonstrated, the US and other governments are actually very interested in such
religious questions. And among these sacral bodies and especially among
so-called ethnic Christian communities, politics and religion are closely
united.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Museum-of-Christian-Culture-opens-in-St.-Petersburg-53335.html
It is entirely appropriate that this farcical museum contains
a Constantine Room, for this form of counterfeit Christianity has its genesis
in the fourth century. Begun by Constantine, the Christianisation project would
be completed by the reign of Theodosius II. Seventeen centuries later the
Church has never recovered from it and its poison has worked its way into the
farthest recesses of the Church on Earth. Indeed there are few who seem able to
question its basic suppositions, and even fewer who can divorce their thinking
from its assumptions.
https://eurasianet.org/covid-and-the-new-debt-dynamics-of-kyrgyzstan-and-tajikistan
https://www.centralasianews.net/news/267339395/uzbekistan-attracts-usd-66-billion-fdi-in-2020
Articles such as these represent a signal to Western investment
– particularly the EU, that there is a need to infuse cash (and thus influence)
into the region. A failure to do so will lead to Beijing's increased power and
presence in the Central Asian and Eurasian theatres.
