Posts Tagged ‘Ukraine-Russian war’

NZ charity Kiwi KARE sends Ukraine another ambulance fleet

Thursday, August 15th, 2024

Kiwi charity Kiwi KARE has shipped 16 ambulances to Ukraine to deliver aid and evacuate the injured. The charity’s response to Ukraine’s call for more ambulances follows reports of continued attacks since the Ukraine-Russia war began in 2022. The decommissioned Hato Hone St John ambulances are now in Kyiv. They will be serviced before being Read more

Christian persecution in occupied Ukraine widespread

Thursday, August 1st, 2024
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Christian persecution is systematic in Russian-occupied Ukraine, the US Helsinki Commission heard in Washington last week. Russia’s government also persecutes other faith communities in the war-torn country. Desecration, violence Ukrainian military chaplain Mark Sergeev was a youth pastor until Russian troops seized his home town. Sergeev said that Russian troops terrorised him and his nine-year Read more

Vatican prayer service follows naked man’s desecration of St Peter’s altar

Thursday, June 8th, 2023

A prayer service in the form of a purification rite was performed at St. Peter’s Basilica after a man desecrated the main altar. Startled witnesses, on Friday, New Zealand time, say the man stripped off his clothes, leapt onto the high altar in the centre of the church, and stood naked apart from his shoes Read more