{"id":110260,"date":"2022-03-04T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110260"},"modified":"2022-03-04T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T22:15:59","slug":"church-times-keep-resisting-russian-invasion-church-leaders-tell-ukrainians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110260","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Keep resisting Russian invasion, church leaders tell Ukrainians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religious leaders in Ukraine have urged its citizens to continue resisting the Russian invasion&#8230;, as churches around the world condemned the war, and Anglicans in Europe held a special service for peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember firmly that the truth is on our side \u2014 and where the truth is, there is God and victory,\u201d the leader of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Epiphany Dumenko, told Christians this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefenders of Ukraine, brothers and sisters, you have ruined the aggressor\u2019s intentions for a quick victory. The whole world admires how Ukraine has successfully resisted Russian aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The message was released as Russian tanks continued to advance on Kyiv, despite aborted peace talks. By mid-week, dozens of Ukrainian civilians had been reported killed by missiles and shells in the country\u2019s second city, Kharkhiv.<\/p>\n<p>In a new sign of its distancing itself from the Moscow Patriarchate, the Primate of the Moscow-linked Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Metropolitan Onufriy Berezovsky, instructed all parishes to pray for God\u2019s mercy amid the \u201ccries and groans of the Ukrainian people\u201d and \u201cmaking the authorities wise and strengthening our army with courage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2022\/4-march\/news\/world\/keep-resisting-russian-invasion-church-leaders-tell-ukrainians\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cRemember firmly that the truth is on our side \u2014 and where the truth is, there is God and victory.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xaJccdOXA6\">https:\/\/t.co\/xaJccdOXA6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1499124659165487113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious leaders in Ukraine have urged its citizens to continue resisting the Russian invasion&#8230;, as churches around the world condemned the war, and Anglicans in Europe held a special service for peace. \u201cRemember firmly that the truth is on our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110260\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,154,108,479,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-armed-forces","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110263,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110260\/revisions\/110263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}