Leaders of Ukrainian Protestants addressed the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson.
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We are talking about an appeal from the Council of Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine to Johnson and the House of Representatives of the US Congress. A letter asking to unblock aid to Ukraine was signed by the leaders of 15 Protestant denominations in Ukraine, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova said on Facebook.
Johnson was approached on behalf of the Council of Evangelical Protestant Churches, which represents more than 8,000 churches and covers about 2 million believers.
For 30 years after the declaration of independence of Ukraine, we had the opportunity to evangelize, help people spiritually, open thousands of churches, but then Russia started a war to destroy us as a people,” the letter says.
Ukrainian Protestants recall Russia’s terrible large-scale attacks on Ukraine. One of the largest power plants in Ukraine was completely destroyed, another merciless attack on the suburbs of Odessa took place, in addition to drones, 9 Iskander ballistic missiles were fired. As a result of rocket attacks in Odessa, 5 civilians were killed, among them another minister of the Protestant church, Vitaly Taranenko, who became another victim of Russian terrorism.
We call on our brother in faith, Speaker of the House of Representatives Johnson, as well as all Christian congressmen to protect the Ukrainian churches and our entire people from genocide. We ask you to vote on the aid package for Ukraine and give us now the hand of support that we so need. Today, every day of delay brings new and new victims, our churches are destroyed, believers and ministers are killed and tortured, every day of delay hits the churches,” explains Anatoly Kozachok, chairman on duty of the Council.
Source: Racurs
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