{"id":9222,"date":"2018-03-16T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2018-03-21T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:50:45","slug":"how-a-pastor-crossed-the-frontlines-of-the-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/how-a-pastor-crossed-the-frontlines-of-the-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Pastor Crossed the Frontlines of the War in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I talked to a pastor who serves in the Separatist controlled area of Eastern Ukraine, he shared with me an amazing story of how he crossed the border back into the war zone one Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Recently I talked to a pastor who serves in the Separatist controlled area of Eastern Ukraine, he shared with me an amazing story of how he crossed the border back into the war zone one Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","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":[35],"tags":[77,337],"class_list":["post-9222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-updates","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-crisis","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-14-at-11.02.03-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-2oK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23644,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/he-used-to-be-a-regular-pastor\/","url_meta":{"origin":9222,"position":0},"title":"He Used to Be a Regular Pastor","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"September 13, 2025","format":"video","excerpt":"What drives a Ukrainian pastor to trade his pulpit for the frontlines of war? 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