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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 […]
VASILY RAZUMOV, Russian Orthodox Church (Yaroslavl, Russia)
Vasily Razumov, a linguist, lecturer of literature, in the recent past — a teacher of literature at the Ignaty Brianchaninov Orthodox Gymnasium; he starred in Maria Sandler’s film The Unholy Holy about the Orthodox Church in the modern world. Razumov wrote anti-war posts on social media. One of those posts from 17 March 2023 was […]
Believer ANDREY TSAPKALENKO, Russian Orthodox Church (Khabarovsk, Russia)
Employee of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Khabarovsk, 61 years old. On 6 March 2022, Tsapkalenko was with the protesters who opposed the war and supported Sergei Furgal in the square of his city. Tsepkalenko told the participants that he worked in the cathedral, but he called the behaviour of the leadership of the church and […]
Rev. EDUARD CHAROV, non-denominational Christian (Krasnoufimsky district, Sverdlovsk oblast, Russia)
A non-denominational Christian, rector of the Christian Abode of Mercy (Almshouse) in the village of Savinovo, Krasnoufimsky district, Sverdlovsk oblast. Charov wrote anti-war posts on his social media, urged not to go to the military recruitment offices and invited conscripts who “escaped from the moGilization” [play of words: mogila means a grave in Russian] to […]
Believer YAUHIEN HLUSHKOU, former sacristan, Belarusian Orthodox Church (Ziabraŭka, Homieĺ region, Belarus)
A musician, veterinarian, former sacristan at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish in the village of Prybytki, Homieĺ region. Hlushkou was detained and placed in custody in August 2022. Contacts of Ukrainians and an old photo of the airfield in Ziabraŭka used by Russian troops for airstrikes in Ukraine were found in his […]