Russian Anti-War Priests in Ukraine Face Putin’s Repression: “You Can’t Kill, Period!”

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The Bible says “you will not kill”, but in the temples of the Russian Orthodox Church it is obligatory to pray for the triumph of the invaders in the war in Ukraine. “O God, rise up in the help of your people and grant us victory with your power,” says the Prayer for the Holy Rus, a prayer imposed by Patriarch Kiril—the leader of the Church in Russia—to his clerics at every Mass since 2022, the year in which the Kremlin launched the large-scale …