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Ukrainian Orthodox Church strips award from gay soldier due to 'sinful ideology'

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has revoked an award given to a gay Ukrainian combat medic and soldier celebrating his military combat service over his propagation of "sinful ideology" and denial of God's existence.

"We thank warrior Victor Pilipenko (as well as all our defenders for defending our liberty and territorial integrity) for his military service, but we do not divide his sinful likeness and LGBT agitation," the statement reads.

"We inform that due to open propaganda of sinful ideology and the denial of the existence of God, consider the church award to Victor Pilipenko from 08.02.2024 Order no. 27468 — revoked."

https://www.christianpost.com/news/ukrai...ldier.html

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Inmates attack San Jose pastor accused of killing girl with church exorcism

Rene Trigueros Hernandez was a pastor at a Pentecostal church, Iglesia Apostoles y Profetas, until he was arrested by San Jose Police Department officers. His granddaughter, Arely Naomi Proctor, died in the church on Sept. 24, 2021. Prosecutors said the girl was tortured by family members for hours on the altar as they attempted to cast a “demon” out of her.

The girl’s family members told police that they squeezed Arely, trying to expel the demon, until they realized that she was dead, according to investigators.

Hernandez, 60, might not survive long enough in jail to make it to a trial if the inmate attacks continue, his defense attorney said.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/inma...-exorcism/

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Ukrainian Orthodox Church strips award from gay soldier due to 'sinful ideology'

Why would a church be giving awards?  Who would want one?

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Heresy by Catherine Nixey review – book of revelations

Second-century Gospel of James starts off telling how, at the moment of Jesus’s birth, the world suddenly stops turning: birds hang in the air, a shepherd’s arm is frozen and the stars stand still. A few minutes later, a woman arrives and, sceptical about whether Mary can really be a virgin, insists on shoving her finger up the new mother’s vagina, whereupon her hand is immediately burned off.

This is just one of the hundreds – thousands, probably – of alternative versions of Christianity that teemed in the centuries following Jesus’s life and death. Take the Ophites, who believed that Christ had appeared on Earth in the form of a serpent. They celebrated mass by encouraging a snake to crawl over the altar on which loaves had been placed, consecrating them in the process. Another sect from the first century AD believed that King Herod rather than Jesus was the Messiah they had been waiting for. In Ethiopia, meanwhile, Pontius Pilate was looked on as far more than a Roman middle manager with a tendency to dither. He is revered there as a saint to this day.

The reason that we haven’t heard of these disreputable variants of the Christian story, suggests Catherine Nixey in this enthralling book, is that the early Church Fathers moved heaven and earth to ensure they were nipped in the bud. Whenever they came across something – a text, a practice, a belief – that they hadn’t authorised, they labelled it as “heresy” and threw the book at it. Flogging, fining and banishment were the obvious sanctions. But if you really wanted to send a message, then rowing heretics out to the middle of the sea, weighing them down with a sack of sand tied to the neck and legs, and pushing them overboard was the way to go. The idea was to make sure that no body could be recovered and turned into an object of veneration.By dint of such repressive measures, only one version of Christianity survived and flourished.

In Nixey’s words: “heresy would tilt European history for centuries”. It would lead to the excommunication of Martin Luther and the house arrest of Galileo. Heresy – or rather fear of it – pushed Thomas Cranmer into writing the Book of Common Prayer in 1549.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/m...evelations

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https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/03/30/rp...oi-a126277

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RUSSIAN CHURCH DECLARES WAR AGAINST UKRAINE “HOLY”

Russian priests believe that Russian soldiers are defending the “unified spiritual space” and the world from “the tyranny of globalism and the victory of the West, which has fallen into Satanism.”

“Russia is the creator, support, and defender of the “Russkiy mir”. The boundaries of the Russian world, as a spiritual and cultural-civilizational phenomenon, are significantly broader than the state borders of both the modern Russian Federation and the great historical Russia,” the “decree” text says.

“All the deceitfulness of Russian propaganda and all its cynicism are hidden in such seemingly spiritual-moral formulations,” said Serhiy Kasyanchuk, Director of the UWC Mission to Ukraine. “The Russian Orthodox Church sanctifies and blesses the destruction of the entire Ukrainian people, which is an active component of the world Christian community. It sanctifies the weapons that destroy a large part of the Christian world.”

The entire territory of modern Ukraine “must enter the zone of exclusive influence of Russia,” emphasized the Russian clergy. Dozens of church hierarchs and church-related public figures joined the meeting on March 27 in Moscow.

https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/r...aine-holy/