The Orthodox Church this weekend marked the end of Orthodox Lent and Holy Week with the celebration of Pascha, Christ’s resurrection. Despite war and violence in Orthodox countries the Church remains a vessel of grace and truth! Pray for peace and Christ is Risen!
While “democracy” itself is nothing more than a globalist buzzword used to justify intervention and cultural imperialism on otherwise conservative states it seems that those in the US/Anglosphere deep state have lost all pretense of pretending to support an “open society”.
What many who were so quick to decorate their social media profiles with blue and gold flags may not realize is that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the hot culmination of an 8+ year long civil struggle within the Ukraine that involved heavy fighting akin to what we are seeing now. Besides just the past atrocities committed against the people of the Donbass region the scale of persecution against Russian language speakers, those not deemed sufficiently loyal to the Zelensky regime, and those who still worship in the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) has frighteningly increased.
Recently, video surfaced of armed vigilantes storming a Church during liturgy and kidnapping the serving Priest and several parishioners. Multiple other clerics have been intimidated, kidnapped, interrogated, and more. A community in the Chernivtsi region of Southwestern Ukraine had been protecting their Church from armed assailants who sought to repossess the building and forcibly bring it into the schismatic “Orthodox Church in Ukraine” backed by the US state department.
Unfortunately, after 3 years of threats, the local police recently stormed the Church and blocked it off from its Priests and parishioners openly calling those who consider themselves part of the canonical Church persona non-grata’s. Pray for the Priests as many of their fates are still unknown.
While “democracy” itself is nothing more than a globalist buzzword used to justify intervention and cultural imperialism on otherwise conservative states it seems that those in the US/Anglosphere deep state have lost all pretense of pretending to support an “open society”.