With Russian forces grinding away on their eastern border, Iranian drones targeting apartment buildings and hospitals in Ukrainian cities and North Korea sending more and more troops to fight alongside Russia, why did Ukrainian evangelical Christians come en masse to Washington, DC for the International Religious Freedom Summit?
Because as much as Ukraine is suffering, believers in occupied Ukraine are suffering more. Ukrainian Christians who lived through both the Soviet Union and the current Russian occupation of Ukraine say that the Soviets were easier on Christians.
One of the most searing memories of my Christian upbringing was of missionaries coming to our church, telling harrowing tales of smuggling Bibles into the Soviet Union and believers being taken to Gulags for their faith. My childhood imagination could almost smell the evil stench of the KGB from the fourth row pew.
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