{"id":6238,"date":"2016-02-01T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2016-02-01T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:43:09","slug":"rising-propaganda-against-sects-in-eastern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/rising-propaganda-against-sects-in-eastern-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Propaganda Against Sects in Eastern Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Get them out of our republic, they are just turning people into zombies&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One woman says in the video below as she talks about how terrible &#8220;sects&#8221; are and how they should be kicked out of Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;Sect&#8221; is a general term used mainly by Russian Orthodox that can refer to almost any non-Russian Orthodox religion)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7nH0BbSvq2s\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another man speaking through a megaphone states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have found our calling, we are Slavic people and we have a Slavic faith, we are all Russian, we are Orthodox Christians&#8230; we say &#8216;no&#8217; to sects, we say &#8216;no&#8217; to those who bless the war with their deceptive principles!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The people begin to chant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;NO SECTS, NO SECTS, NO SECTS!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the background people hold up signs. One reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Greek Catholic Church -Bringer\u00a0of anti-republic movement&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A young man tells the camera:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We came here because we disagree with the politics of these sects, they are bringing values that don&#8217;t fit our ideals.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This might be a good time to remind you of a video documentary done last year about <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mhEe2PSaEW0\" target=\"_blank\">Churches in Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic<\/a>\u00a0which revealed the government&#8217;s antagonistic approach to anything but the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p>I also wrote about this October when the <a href=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/lugansk-authorities-accuse-baptist-church-of-being-a-sect\/\" target=\"_blank\">Church in Krasny Luch <\/a>came under attack by local officials.<\/p>\n<p>While it seemed the last couple of months\u00a0had provided a lull in this type of activity, this new protest is worrisome.<\/p>\n<h3>Please pray for the many evangelical and protestant Churches in separatist controlled areas of Donetsk and Lugansk.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Get them out of our republic, they are just turning people into zombies&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One woman says in the video below as she talks about how terrible &#8220;sects&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[370,193],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new","category-ukraine-2","tag-ukraine-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-01-at-4.39.05-PM-e1454337649209.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-1CC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5226,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/donetsk-war-on-protestant-churches\/","url_meta":{"origin":6238,"position":0},"title":"Donetsk&#8217; War on Protestant Churches","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"March 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Is there a targeted effort to take out Protestant Churches in the Eastern Ukraine war-zone? 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