{"id":111945,"date":"2022-05-06T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111945"},"modified":"2022-05-06T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:17:06","slug":"church-times-moscow-patriarch-persists-in-his-support-for-war-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111945","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Moscow Patriarch persists in his support for war on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has again defended Russian intervention in Ukraine, denying that it constituted an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia has never attacked anyone \u2014 it\u2019s amazing that such a great and powerful country has only ever defended its borders,\u201d the Patriarch told a congregation in the Cathedral of the Archangel, in the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay God grant that our country remains like this till the end of the century: strong, powerful, and loved by God. . . May the Lord protect our Russian land from internecine strife and invasion by foreigners, and strengthen the Orthodox faith, the only spiritual force that can truly hold our people together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Preaching on Tuesday, the Patriarch said that Russia\u2019s past rulers had \u201cfaithfully served the Orthodox Church and their fatherland\u201d, and should be turned to in prayer \u201cfor the Russian state, so that our sacred borders remain impregnable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2022\/6-may\/news\/world\/moscow-patriarch-persists-in-his-support-for-war-on-ukraine\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PATRIARCH KIRILL of Moscow has again defended Russian intervention in Ukraine, denying that it constituted an invasion. \u201cRussia has never attacked anyone.\u201d<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/twFtoQ9RCE\">https:\/\/t.co\/twFtoQ9RCE<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@churchtimes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gene Bryant (@GeneBryant2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeneBryant2\/status\/1522679833402114048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 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>Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has again defended Russian intervention in Ukraine, denying that it constituted an invasion. \u201cRussia has never attacked anyone \u2014 it\u2019s amazing that such a great and powerful country has only ever defended its borders,\u201d the Patriarch<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111945\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111945","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=111945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111947,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111945\/revisions\/111947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}