Putin’s Holy War: The religious roots of the Ukraine invasion - Fr Cyril Hovorun and Clifford Longley (+ Sergey Rakhuba)

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🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is more than just a geo-political conflict. The Russian leader believes in the spiritual destiny of a united 'Holy Rus' that goes back to the conversion of Vladimir the Great in 984. Ukrainian Orthodox scholar Fr Cyril Hovorun and Catholic journalist Clifford Longley discuss how the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church plays into the conflict and what can be done. Justin also speaks to Ukrainian Christian leader Sergey Rakhuba of Mission Eurasia about the church response to the refugee crisis. Fr Cyril Hovorun: https://www.sanktignatios.org/dr-cyril-hovorun Clifford Longley: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/editors-desk/2/21568/religious-roots-of-ukraine-crisis- Sergey Rakhuba: https://missioneurasia.org/ Matters of Life & Death podcast: https://pod.link/1509923173 --- For exclusive resources and to support us: • Unbelievable? Live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • Support (USA): http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support (rest of the world): https://my.premier.org.uk/donate/donate-unbelievable-2021 • Confident Christianity apologetics course: http://www.premier.org.uk/getconfident • For our newsletter https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter • For our blog: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievable-the-blog • For the podcast: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PremierUnbelievable • Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb • Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	The idea is that there is a holy space whose soil is holy, whose people are holy, and whose
0:15.0	church is holy, and they're unified under the Moscow Patriarchate.
0:20.0	I call it putinization.
0:22.0	It's something that we need to address, really, and I kind of advocate for this point, that
0:28.6	we need at this moment that putinization over thought-of-see.
0:32.6	You're listening to unbelievable, with Justin Breilie.
0:37.6	Welcome along to today's edition of the show.
0:42.6	It's time to talk about Ukraine and Putin's holy war to excellent guest joining me for
0:48.6	today's programme.
0:49.6	But before we get to that, thanks to everyone who turned out for our evening with Philip
0:53.6	Yancey, it's such a good event and very helpful words actually shared by Philip on the situation
0:58.6	in Ukraine.
0:59.6	We will be putting that conversation out on a future edition of the show, but listeners
1:03.0	joined from all over the world to ask their questions of Philip.
1:06.0	Thanks to Johannes and South Africa who said, I enjoyed it so much, I also regularly
1:10.0	listened to Ask, N2Rite, anything, and unbelievable, and learned so much from both.
1:14.7	And you can join from anywhere in the world for our next live event, which is unbelievable,
1:19.2	conference in partnership this year with ADF UK, happening on Saturday the 14th of May,
1:24.8	live from the British Library in London.
1:27.5	You can join in person or online just as many did for our Philip Yancey event.
1:32.2	Our theme is God unmuted, learning how the church can find its authentic voice again,
1:36.5	we've got an absolute stack of speakers joining us and more to be announced.
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