Back in business: Christianity's second coming in Russia

Source: YouTube

April 11, 2022

    

For the best part of a century, Russia was a soulless, godless place. The communists made quite sure of that. With the Revolution came a grim determination to stamp out religion. Under Lenin, and particularly Stalin, Christians were enemies of the state, churches were destroyed, priests and nuns jailed, often murdered. Even church bells and religious music were banned. How times have changed. In the new Russia, there's been a Christian revival, a kind of resurrection. The Orthodox Church is back in business, and its missionaries are out in force, spreading the word.

See the video here: Back in business: Christianity's second coming in Russia | 60 Minutes Australia

4/11/2022

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Comments
Benjamin4/21/2022 4:52 am
Its quite ironic, American liberalism has done to religion what Soviet communism couldn't. And to think, we were the good guys during the Cold War. Very strange times we're living in. Every day I wake up and think "the entire world is weird, and getting weirder". Reality is becoming less real. At this point, any given episode of the original 50s-era Twilight Zone would probably be at least equally as weird as the world we live in today, at least here in Anglosphere countries. Oh well. The silver lining is: its actually EASIER to be a devout Christian in 2022 than had I been alive in 1952. Back then the evil was very difficult to detect, and one could hand waive it away, dismiss the entire Christian religion as superstician and a throwback to more primitive times. But today its actually quite easy to identify the work of Satan in the world and know where you stand in relation.
Ioann4/13/2022 4:37 pm
“The Russian peoples’ terrible sufferings are the result of Russia’s betrayal of its own self, of its own path and calling… Russia will arise when it lifts its gaze and sees that all the saints who shown forth in the Russian land are alive in God’s Kingdom, that in them is the spirit of eternal life and that we must be with them, spiritually touch and partake of their eternal life. In this is the salvation of Russian and the whole world… There is no spirit of life or joy of life in Russia. Everyone is afraid of it, like they are afraid of demons… The Russian heaven, the Russian saints call us to be with them, just as they are with us…Russia awaits a Christ-loving army, a Christ-loving tsar and leaders, who will lead the Russian people, not for earthly glory, but for the sake of faithfulness to the Russian path of truth. Not unto us, O Lord, but unto Thy Name. In repentance, faith, and in its purification may the Russian land be renewed, and may Holy Rus’ arise.” St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco https://orthochristian.com/122129.html
John T. 4/11/2022 8:13 pm
I watched most of the video and this page was very good news. Unfortunately, the 60MinutesAustralia reporter dealt subtle blows to the Orthodox Faith, calling St. Sergius Trinity Lavra a "Divine Disneyland" & saying how "now they can return to the faith of their grandparents" (once the Cathedral was rebuilt). The content was good but the reporter was quite biased.
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