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The above is excerpted from - https://www.candelarugulaprins.ro/en/may-the-entire-christian-world-be-a-burning-bush-of-prayer/

According to an American lawyer, President Zelensky, after receiving U.S. funding, is ready to come down on the UOC again. Robert Amsterdam, head of the international human rights firm Amsterdam & Partners LLP, stated that while Volodymyr Zelensky was preaching peace and reconstruction in Europe, at the same time his people were supervising the ongoing elimination of the 1000-year-old Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He wrote about this on his X. "The attempt to divide Ukrainian Orthodox and force state intervention into religion, and doing so in secret, is both repulsive and opportunistic," underscored the human rights defender. After securing his funding, he (Zelensky – Ed.) seems willing to show his true colors – and we are very concerned for the impact on human rights." #illegal_prosecution #freedomforUOC #religious_discrimination #truth_about_Ukraine Source of the info. Subscribe to Voice of Orthodox Ukraine, know truth about human rights and religious politics in Ukraine

"The purpose of the creation of the OCU by the Constantinople Patriarchate is the furthering of the ecumenical movement." Here is an article from 2020, which with the passing of a few years has only shown to be very accurate. https://orthochristian.com/128636.html

An American lawyer for the UOC reminded of the real situation in Ukraine, where the SBU imprisons Orthodox priests and journalists on false charges. Robert Amsterdam, head of the international human rights firm Amsterdam & Partners LLP, responded to President Volodymyr Zelensky's thanks to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for "strengthening Orthodoxy in Ukraine" during the "Peace Summit" in Switzerland. The lawyer wrote on his X that this is the most insulting level of hypocrisy. "To utter such a statement at the same moment the SBU is jailing priests and journalists on false charges, seizing and demolishing churches, and terrorizing the faithful because of their beliefs - it is the most insulting level of hypocrisy," he emphasized. #freedomforUOC #religious_discrimination #truth_about_Ukraine Source of the info. Subscribe to Voice of Orthodox Ukraine, know truth about human rights and religious politics in Ukraine

A new post is up! Read it here - https://inklesspen.blog/2024/06/17/the-schism-of-false-unity/

I continue to keep my eyes open for information regarding the Theotokos Prayer Rule and the prayer "O Theotokos and Virgin rejoice ..." This month I found another small bit of information and have updated my article on the topic with this information - St. Nikolai Velimirovich states in his major work, The Prologue, under the life of St. Cyril of Alexandria, “It is said that he composed the prayer ‘O Theotokos and Virgin rejoice” (the reading for June 9th). St. Cyril lived in the 5th century. This would indicate that the prayer at the center of the Theotokos Rule is actually quite “Eastern” in its origin and based firmly on Scriptural wording. It is possible that this prayer then made its way over to the West and this is reflected in the use of it, in some form, by St. Gregory. The later establishment of a prayer rule in the 8th century, with this prayer at the center, then appears very organic. https://inklesspen.blog/2023/08/05/christian-prayer-to-the-virgin-mary-and-the-theotokos-rule/

In case you missed it, a very important read - "The King of the Kings and Creator of everything, whom you have got the scepter and the power from, your life and breath and all that is good, has given you and everyone a commandment by saying “Love one another.” Not only do you disobey the commandment of love, but you also command your subjects to hate their brothers and murder them. Are you unaware that all human beings are brothers, creatures of the same Father? There is neither gentile nor Jew, Barbarian, Scythian, free man nor slave, Englishman, Frenchman, Russian, German, Italian, European, American, Asian, African, Australian, but we are all one, all brothers, we are all the same." https://inklesspen.blog/2023/11/08/to-the-belligerent-rulers-of-the-nations/