{"id":4017,"date":"2014-06-06T23:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T20:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2014-06-06T23:59:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T20:59:28","slug":"this-is-why-theyre-called-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/this-is-why-theyre-called-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Why They’re Called Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terrorists are those who use fear and threats to control people and get what they want. In general that means beat, torture and kill those who disagree with you or in any way oppose you!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately Eastern and Southern Ukraine are full of terrorists now and sadly Pastor Sergey has experienced this first hand!<\/p>\n

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Let me introduce you to Pastor Sergey, he has led a public prayer meeting in Donetsk Ukraine for the past 94 days! This group gathers daily around a little prayer tent in the middle of town. Anyone could come into the tent for prayer or to find help.<\/p>\n

This little prayer meeting was seen as a threat to he leadership of Donetsk. You have to understand that Donetsk is under the control of separatists called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR). \u00a0As a result fifteen armed men stormed in and torn down the prayer tent. They threatened all who were there that if they returned they would be shot!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In an interview with prochurch.info Sergey described the situation (You can read the original in Russian here<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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-Fifteen armed men with identifying signs from Donetsk People’s Republic and St. George’s ribbon destroyed the prayer tent while there were two people serving in it. The bandits took the equipment, battery, speakers and microphone. The banner and tent they threw into the river Kalmius. The attackers promised to shoot anyone who would come to the prayer meeting.<\/div>\n
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Pastor Sergey decided to go to city hall to see if he could figure out why they had destroyed the prayer tent and come to some agreement with city leaders. \u00a0He wrote about what happened next on his Facebook wall<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Friends, today was a tough day, but for me very difficult. To begin with, representatives of Donetsk People\u2019s Republic destroyed our tent, and then there was the following story.<\/p>\n

Several times I have gone to the city administration building to talk with the leaders of the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic, so I went once again.\u00a0I didn’t find the person I had talked with earlier there but happened to see someone who attended my church. I was glad when I saw him, but he didn’t seem too glad we met. He began to yell that I was manipulating the people and things like that. In short, the negotiations failed, in the eyes of these people I had become the enemy. You tend to have short conversations with your enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n

People are very angry, because, first of all, their hearts are empty and not filled with God. I told them that God loves them, I harbored no anger or hatred towards them in my heart, even when they beat me. I will not describe the very beating, but that I am still alive, just the grace of God.<\/p>\n

Among them were people who knew about our prayer tent, they cursed the others for what they did to me. After that, they gave me my things back and my money, then asked for forgiveness from me and that I would not be offended.<\/p>\n

Before they started beating me I told them about Christ, called them to turn their hearts to God, and while they beat me I just prayed. I couldn’t make it to the prayer meeting in the evening because I had to go to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Dark times have come to our region, people hate each other, they\u2019re ready to kill, beat for a preposterous idea, and to die for those ideas. And they can not see Him for Whom it is really worth living and dying. God save the people, turn their attention to yourself.<\/p>\n

It hurts not physically but morally, that Ukraine is wallowing in sin, and instead of people fighting together against the enemy they are pointing their weapons at each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I chatted with Sergey briefly after he was treated in the hospital for the wounds he received during his beating. Amazingly he has not giving up praying for Ukraine and still daily holds public prayer meetings. When I asked him what his one biggest prayer request was he simply answered,<\/div>\n
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Please pray for Donbas!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course Pastor Sergey’s story is only one story. There are many others from Eastern and Southern Ukraine that still have not been told. Many have been beat, abducted and murdered for their political views.<\/p>\n