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DANIEL-LANDSEY KEITA, singer, Belarusian Orthodox Church (Minsk, Belarus)
Daniel-Landsey Keita is a musician and Orthodox Christian who sings in church choirs. Daniel-Landsey Keita is a laureate of the 1st degree of the Republican competition of young vocalists named after Chaliapin. In 2018, he graduated from the Republican Music College with a degree in choral conducting and entered the Belarusian State Academy of Music. […]
Rev. KONSTANTIN KOKORA, ROC (Moscow, Russia)
Konstantin Kokora, a cleric of the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Mitino, Moscow, held the position of coordinator for Sunday schools in the Northwest Vicariate of Moscow. He is also known for various appearances on Christian topics in the media, particularly on the radio stations “Vera” and “Theos,” and the “Soyuz” […]
Pastor NIKOLAY ROMANYUK, Evangelical Christians (Moscow, Russia)
Nikolay Romanyuk, born in 1962, is the senior pastor of the Pentecostal Church “Holy Trinity Church” and a father of nine children. He opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In September 2022, Nikolay Romanyuk made a strong condemnation of participation in military actions, stating, “This is not our war.” On 18 October 2024, he was […]
A Vanishing Point: Unity in Orthodoxy and the Ukraine Crisis
Economos Orthodoxy in America Lecture was delievered by Dr. Nadieszda Kizenko in Fordham University, New York, 30 October 2023. Video can be seen here. When I was invited to give the annual Economos Orthodoxy in America lecture, I first thought of some topic I have studied at length. The sacrament of repentance, perhaps—or nineteenth-century saints. […]
Rev. ROMAN KURAKH, Mukachevo Greek Catholic Diocese (Uzhhorod, Ukraine)
Rev. Roman Kurakh, priest of the Exaltation of the Cross Cathedral of the Mukachevo Greek Catholic Eparchy, Uzhgorod. At the divine liturgy on 6 August 2023, Rev. Kurach said a homily in which, in particular, there were the folowing words: “And we very much ask the Lord to do this miracle: to reconcile these two […]
Bishop ALBERT RATKIN, Evangelical Christian (Kaluga)
Protestant bishop Albert Ratkin of the New Word Church in Kaluga, former Bishop of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians (ROSHVE) in Kaluga and special representative on international relations of the Bishop of the Russian United Union of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) Sergey Ryakhovsky, was expelled from ROSHVE in 2021 for criticizing the leadership and its […]
Pastor YURI SIPKO, EChB (Moscow)
From 2002 to 2010, Pastor Yuri Sipko was the chair of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists, former vice-president of the World Baptist Alliance. Since the beginning of Russian aggression against Ukraine, he has consistently spoken out against the war in his sermons, statements, interviews and on social media. Since 2014, he has opposed […]
Pastor SVYATOSLAV YUGOV, New Generation Church (Chelyabinsk, Russia)
Pastor of the Evangelical New Life church in Chelyabinsk. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Yugov is also the founder of two commercial organizations, one charity, as well as the Central Religious Organization of Evangelical Christians Pentecostals (the New Generation Association) and its branch in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk oblast. The persecution was provoked […]
Bishop NIKOLAI ULITIN, The New Generation Church (Krasnodar Krai, Russia)
Christian preacher and bishop of the southern region of New Generation churches in Krasnodar Krai, 53 years old. He ministered in the stanitsa of Poltava, Krasnodar Krai, together with his wife. They have six children. Every year he preached at the young Christians’ conference on the Black Sea coast. The persecution was provoked by a […]
VITALY KOLTSOV, ROC (Moscow)
Vitaly Koltsov, 47 years old, a father of many children, a poet, a developer of intellectual games, an Orthodox believer, a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Russian State University for Humanities. On 2 May 2022, Koltsov came to the Metropol Hotel at Revolyutsii Square in Moscow wearing a suit and tie, and […]