"When the communism comes back..."

Russian occupation authorities ban Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church activities in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia region

The Russian occupation authorities issued an “order” to ban the activities of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, as well as the Knights of Columbus and Caritas organizations engaged in social service in the occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region. The “order” of the alleged head of the occupation military-civilian administration of Zaporizhzhia region, collaborator Yevhen Balytsky, was published on his official website.



The Information Department of the UGCC has just become aware of this, despite the document being dated December 26, 2022.

The occupiers groundlessly justify the ban on the activities of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region by allegedly storing “explosives and firearms on the territory of religious buildings and auxiliary premises,” as well as by the fact that the activities of the UGCC are carried out “in violation of the legislation on religious and public organizations of the Russian Federation,” namely, due to “the participation of parishioners in mass riots and anti-Russian rallies in March-April 2022”, “distribution of literature inciting violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation,” “active participation of UGCC communities in Zaporizhzhia region in the activities of extremist organizations and propaganda of neo-Nazi ideas”, etc.

Furthermore, alongside the prohibition of the UGCC, the Russian occupation authorities have also ordered:

• to transfer movable and immovable property and land plots of the Church to the disposal of the occupation military-civilian administration of the Zaporizhzhia region;
• terminate the lease agreements for premises and land plots previously concluded by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church with local authorities in Zaporizhzhia region;
• cease to register the religious community “Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church” within the occupation authorities of Zaporizhzhia region;
• to prohibit persons who held leadership and administrative positions in the UGCC from registering public and religious organizations in the occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region.

Aside from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the “order” of the occupation authorities of the Russian Federation prohibits the activities of other organizations, in particular those engaged in social service and humanitarian support of the population in the occupied and de-occupied territories: “The Knights of Columbus” and the Caritas Charitable Foundation: Caritas Canada, Caritas USA, Caritas Poland, Caritas Czech Republic, Caritas Donetsk and Caritas Melitopol.

The alleged governor, Balytsky, assigned control over implementing this “order” to his deputy for security.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church calls on international organizations to do everything possible to ensure respect for religious freedom in the occupied territory of Ukraine.

It is important to note that on November 16, 2022, in Berdiansk, the occupation authorities arrested two Redemptorist priests, Ivan Levytsky and Bohdan Geleta, who remain in Russian captivity to this day. In December 2022, they “deported” from Melitopol all the UGCC priests who continued to serve there after the Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia region in the spring of 2022.



Source: https://ugcc.ua/en/data/russian-occupation-authorities-ban-ugcc-activities-in-the-occupied-part-of-zaporizhzhia-region-793/

 

Seems all the signs are emerging rather rapidly... Pray, pray, pray.

 

IN Nicarauga the Bishop Alvarez is still in prison. The govt banned all Christmas processions and the traditional procession of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Many Priests have been arrested and many flown out of the country. Our Parish Priest has flown to Panama to help his parents who just fled Nicauragua. We are praying for them.

 

Praying for the persecuted Catholics in Nicaragua.

 

It’s all very sad and confusing. https://x.com/amymek/status/1741374075405250800?s=46&t=rpQk3Cd1vigE4_phs3nsjQ

 

Is not the blessing of irregular partnerships in the name of equality a form of communism in the church?

 

Communism is coming and here in so many different guises these days.

Another more obvious example is if Ireland looses free speech and if Ireland signs up to the NWO pandemic treaty.

But none are more obvious than banning or persecuting our Catholic faith.

 

"When communism returns..."

I suppose it can be seen that way, as a result of the spread of Russia's errors throughout the world, mainly due to the infiltration of the Catholic Church and the secularization of society. Even though homosexuality was prohibited under Soviet communism, I think, at least under Joseph Stalin's command...

Regarding Garabandal's words and without disassociate it from Christian apostasy and all the obscenities of so-called Western democracies, personally, I believe that it refers to something much more specific.

 

In my opinion, you could substitute Russia with the USA.

I suppose it can be seen that way, as a result of the spread of AMERICA'S errors throughout the world.

 

But to take Our Lady's words and substitute our own to match our own clouded misperceptions, I think, dishonors Our Lady herself.

 

That must be a consequence of Russia's errors having spread throughout the world, I suppose.

 

Spanish Catholics with memories or family references from the 1930s have a very concrete notion of communism. Spain experienced horrors of religious persecution unleashed by communists and anarchists of the worst kind.






This is was not to far from Garabandal:

 

Russia bans Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Catholic ministries in occupied region of Ukraine


A destroyed residential building is seen in Orikhiv in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region Sept. 13, 2023, following a Russian airstrike. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church announced Dec. 7 it had just discovered that in an order dated Dec. 26, 2022, an official in the Russian-occupied regions of Zaporizhzhia banned all activities of the church, as well as the Knights of Columbus, Caritas and other Catholic ministries in the occupied area. (OSV News photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak, Reuters)

December 8, 2023
Russian occupation authorities have banned the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and other Catholic ministries in occupied areas of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, according to the church's main communications office in Kyiv.

The UGCC announced on its website Dec. 7 that it had obtained a copy of an order signed by Yevgeny Balitsky, the Kremlin-installed head of the area's military-civil administration, declaring that the UGCC had been banned and its property was to be transferred to his administration.

Also banned by the order were the Knights of Columbus and Caritas, the official humanitarian arm of the universal Catholic Church.

The UGCC said in its statement the document, written in Russian and dated Dec. 26, 2022, had only now come to its attention. An image of the order, which the UGCC said had been published on Balitsky's official website, was included in the UGCC's online statement.

The order declared that the UGCC's activities were in "violation of legislation on religious and public organizations of the Russian Federation."

According to the document, UGCC leaders work "in the interests of foreign intelligence services," while UGCC parishioners had participated "in riots and anti-Russian rallies in March-April 2022."

The order also claimed that UGCC churches and buildings stored "explosive devices and firearms weapons" and distributed "literature calling for the violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation."

The order accused UGCC communities of "active participation … in the Zaporizhzhia area in activities [of] extremist organizations and propaganda of neo-Nazi ideas."

The document said that the Knights of Columbus were "associated with the intelligence services of the United States and the Vatican."

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Knights of Columbus have aided over 1.4 million Ukrainians, providing more than 7.3 million pounds of humanitarian supplies as well as 250,000 care packages and 400 wheelchairs.

The order did not provide an explanation for its action against Caritas, but listed several specific entities in the Caritas network that were banned: Caritas Canada; "Caritas USA," an apparent reference to Catholic Charities USA, the entity's actual name; Caritas Polska; Caritas Czech Republic; and two Caritas agencies in Ukraine, Caritas Donetsk and Caritas Melitopol.

"It does seem to reflect the things they were saying about the [Ukrainian] Greek Catholic Church -- the allegations that they were storing explosive substances and weapons, and that the church was hostile to the Russian administration … [and] having concerns about foreign organizations" such as Caritas and the Knights of Columbus, Corley said. "The phraseology is completely in line with the sort of things that [Russia] was doing and saying, that [the UGCC] was distributing literature calling for the violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation" and promoting "neo-Nazi goals."

"It has all the kind of classic accusations they're making against the [Ukrainian] Greek Catholic Church," said Corley.

He added there has been no update on the fate of two Redemptorist priests, Fr. Ivan Levitsky and Fr. Bohdan Geleta, who were seized in November 2022 from the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Berdyansk located in the Zaporizhzhia region. Geleta is known to suffer from an acute form of diabetes.

Both priests had refused to leave their parishioners following Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, which continued attacks launched in 2014 against Ukraine. Two joint reports from the New Lines Institute and the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights have determined Russia's invasion constitutes genocide, with Ukraine reporting some 114,885 war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine since February 2022.

Russian media reported the priests had been detained for "subversive" and "partisan" activities against Russian forces, who claimed to have discovered explosives, weapons and "prohibited literature" in the church. According to Russian media, the two Redemptorists had rallied area residents to resist Russian forces, and had organized prayer services in support of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk said the arrests were in retaliation for the Ukrainian government's search of the Pechersk Lavra, a Kyiv monastery also known as the Monastery of the Caves, which is under the authority of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate.

Shortly after the priests were captured, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said he had received "the sad news that our priests are being tortured without mercy."

In October, Balitsky told Russian state-owned media outlet RIA Novosti that Russia should restore its historical empire by invading and occupying the Baltic States.

He said that without Russia, the Baltics have "been made into a herd of wordless, trembling creatures."

Balitsky said Russia "will correct this by the power of Russian weapons … to return our people, our subjects" so that "the whole world does not turn into the Sodom and Gomorrah that is happening in Europe now."

OSV News was awaiting a response to its request for comment from both the Knights of Columbus and Caritas officials in Ukraine.

Researcher Felix Corley of Forum 18 -- an Oslo, Norway-based news service that covers religious and intellectual freedom violations in several countries -- told OSV News Dec. 7 that the language of the document, the origin and timeline of which he is investigating, is consistent with previous accusations by Russia against the UGCC.

 

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"It does seem to reflect the things they were saying about the [Ukrainian] Greek Catholic Church -- the allegations that they were storing explosive substances and weapons, and that the church was hostile to the Russian administration … [and] having concerns about foreign organizations" such as Caritas and the Knights of Columbus, Corley said. "The phraseology is completely in line with the sort of things that [Russia] was doing and saying, that [the UGCC] was distributing literature calling for the violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation" and promoting "neo-Nazi goals."

"It has all the kind of classic accusations they're making against the [Ukrainian] Greek Catholic Church," said Corley.

He added there has been no update on the fate of two Redemptorist priests, Fr. Ivan Levitsky and Fr. Bohdan Geleta, who were seized in November 2022 from the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Berdyansk located in the Zaporizhzhia region. Geleta is known to suffer from an acute form of diabetes.

Both priests had refused to leave their parishioners following Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, which continued attacks launched in 2014 against Ukraine. Two joint reports from the New Lines Institute and the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights have determined Russia's invasion constitutes genocide, with Ukraine reporting some 114,885 war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine since February 2022.

Russian media reported the priests had been detained for "subversive" and "partisan" activities against Russian forces, who claimed to have discovered explosives, weapons and "prohibited literature" in the church. According to Russian media, the two Redemptorists had rallied area residents to resist Russian forces, and had organized prayer services in support of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donetsk said the arrests were in retaliation for the Ukrainian government's search of the Pechersk Lavra, a Kyiv monastery also known as the Monastery of the Caves, which is under the authority of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate.

Shortly after the priests were captured, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said he had received "the sad news that our priests are being tortured without mercy."

In October, Balitsky told Russian state-owned media outlet RIA Novosti that Russia should restore its historical empire by invading and occupying the Baltic States.

He said that without Russia, the Baltics have "been made into a herd of wordless, trembling creatures."

Balitsky said Russia "will correct this by the power of Russian weapons … to return our people, our subjects" so that "the whole world does not turn into the Sodom and Gomorrah that is happening in Europe now."

OSV News was awaiting a response to its request for comment from both the Knights of Columbus and Caritas officials in Ukraine.


Source:
https://www.ncronline.org/news/russia-bans-ukrainian-greek-catholic-church-catholic-ministries-occupied-region-ukraine

 

A well-known Catholic journalist was arrested in Belarus on January 23rd along with a hundred other people. She is known for hosting several Catholic events and a Christian teaching video program aimed at children.

Here is an automatic Google translation of the article published on the Katolik.Life website:

“DO NOT ALLOW...” WHAT COVENANT DID THE BELIEVER LEAVE FOR WHOM CATHOLICS ARE NOW PRAYING



“We can stay behind closed metal doors, but even then we will have faith,” wrote Oksana Yuchkovich, who was arrested in Belarus.

Well-known Catholic believer Oksana Yuchkovich is in custody after being detained on January 23. The 34-year-old believer, originally from Parafyanov, was a Catholic journalist, and in recent years she has been working as a teacher, including at the Center for Slavic Languages and Cultures.

“A talented, kind, inspiring, gentle, modest and brave girl,” this is how they spoke about Oksana in one of the Minsk parishes, where she worked with scouts. Later, the believer began to live in Zaslavl. She is known for her creativity - she published poems in newspapers and magazines, and was the co-author of a book for children. Oksana organized many Catholic events and participated in the creation of a Christian video project.

“The brightest”, “our sunshine”, “a real angel” - this is what her friends wrote about her now.

Contact with the believer disappeared the same day it became known that more than 100 people were being detained simultaneously across the country, many of whom were accused of participating in a volunteer project to provide food assistance to the families of prisoners.

Katolik.life learned that Oksana, like many other detainees, was not released after interrogation. Friends do not have any information about her, while one source believes that the believer was detained as part of a criminal case. She is in a detention facility where these types of prisoners are often kept in particularly harsh conditions - overcrowded, cold cells, without warm clothing, pillows or mattresses, and many have to sleep on concrete floors. Therefore, now Oksana especially requires prayer.



There is a post left on Oksana's page in the social network, which can be called a testament. Let's quote it in full:

Don't let them steal the most precious thing you have. I believe. Because we can lose everything, earnings, influence, property, stay behind a closed metal door in a room without windows and in complete solitude and darkness, but even then, left with nothing, we will have it - faith. And she will lead us through the corridor of peace, fill us with hope and help to restrain the darkest darkness and cold.

Don't let them destroy your Love, which in the same darkness and cold will not allow fear to be born and will warm your icy fingers. Don't let your connection to family, both your blood family and the family of your people, be destroyed. The traditions we carry from our families are also one of the main factors to preserve ourselves and carry the light on.

Don't let our compassion be destroyed, because it saves those who are in trouble: behind bars, in hospitals, on the streets...

Don't let them destroy our memory. After all, it helps us to preserve our dignity and be proud of our past, and through this to build an honest future and oppose crimes against humanity. And be brave in this confrontation.

Take care of everyone around you.​

We also quote one of Oksana's poems, which characterizes her well:

As soon as spring begins
Transform me, mighty God
in a plantain leaf from the roadside,
to apply to a deep, bloody wound,
like a black snake, hardened and narrow,
you ask, where is that wound?
where I call myself Belarusian...​

Sources:
https://katolik.life/rus/news/sotsi...a-za-kotoruyu-sejchas-molyatsya-katoliki.html
https://rkc.org.ua/blog/2024/01/26/...a-u-bilorusi-ne-dozvolyajte-znyshhyty-lyubov/


This is her video program aimed at children:

 

In Brest, during a raid by security forces on January 23, about 70 people were detained. And they are all women. Human rights activists became aware of this. The detainees were taken to the KGB, the Investigative Committee and the police.

Source: https://udf.name/news/politic/265030-vo-vremja-hapuna-v-breste-siloviki-zaderzhali-70-chelovek.html (google translated)​

She was interrogated by the Belarusian KGB, literally. I didn't know that the Belarusian intelligence agency kept the name KGB after the collapse of the Soviet Union... That's really freaky!


Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Security_Committee_of_the_Republic_of_Belarus

 

Location of 2 disappeared priests in Ukraine might be known



One priest has been "transferred illegally" to Russia, human rights group charges.

After more than 14 months of near-total silence, it appears that two Catholic priests missing in Ukraine are being held in Russian “investigative prisons,” according to a human rights organization.

“One of the two Greek Catholic priests seized by Russia’s National Guard (Rosgvardiya) in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Berdyansk in November 2022 appears to have been transferred illegally to Russia,” Forum 18 News Service reported Friday.

Redemptorist Frs. Ivan Levytsky and Bohdan Heleta were arrested on November 16, 2022. In the first weeks after their seizure, the leadership of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv warned that the priests were being tortured, probably to get them to make a confession. The occupation forces claim to have found weapons and explosives, as well as extremist literature in the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Berdyansk, where the priests served. The Donetsk Exarchate (diocese) of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has strongly denied all the Russian occupation forces’ claims.

Berdyansk, a small city on the Sea of Azov, southwest of Mariupol, has been under Russian military occupation since February 27, 2022.

Fr. Levytsky is being held in an “investigation prison” in Russia’s Rostov Region, and Fr. Heleta is being held in an investigation prison in Simferopol in Russian-occupied Crimea, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group told Forum 18.

The Donetsk Exarchate told Forum 18 that it can confirm only that the two priests are in Russian captivity.

“The exact location is not known,” a spokesman for the exarchate said. “There is different information, but it is unconfirmed. The fathers are constantly included in the exchange lists [for prisoners held by Russia and Ukraine], but so far without results.

“Stayed with their people”

Evhen Zakharov of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group said January 29 that no trials had yet taken place.

The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, has called for the release of the two priests, saying they were framed.

“These two priests decided to stay with their people in the temporarily occupied territories,” he said just weeks after their disappearance. “They served both the Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic congregations, bringing a light of hope to people under occupation. They were arrested, then some military items were planted into the temple, and they began accusing these fathers of illegally possessing weapons. Yesterday we received a message that they were being mercilessly tortured. Following the classic Stalinist repressive methods, confessing a crime, they did not commit was just beaten out. As a result, they are in danger of death every day.”

Forum 18 News Service is named after Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Forum 18 works for freedom of religion or belief for all on the basis of these articles, particularly in countries of the former Soviet Union.

Source:
https://aleteia.org/2024/02/03/location-of-2-disappeared-priests-in-ukraine-might-be-known/

 

The slow build up that proceeded the invasion into Ukraine...Remember how Russia denied they were preparing to invade...then suddenly they invaded.

Look for the same pattern to happen in anticipation of an invasion of the rest of Europe. But I doubt it will just be tanks and troops. I get the feeling they are holding back a devistating weapon for the large scale invasion, perhaps within 5 years.

But what do I know???

Our lady has warned us. Now is the time to pray. Prayer obtains everything.

 

It's the same story told over and over throughout history. Nation warring against nation, and occupiers of nations. Look at what Ireland went through in the troubles. And England with various monarchs changing allegiance to whoever they felt was in vogue. France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Africa, South America, Canada, etc. Thousands of innocents martyred throughout history. But in today's world the ammo is bigger and the stakes are higher. The NWO doesn't hide what it wants to accomplish, it is communism through and through. The domination of humans. BUT, God in his mercy has sent us prophets and a way of life that gives us hope. And I think God has a great reset in plan for us. We must persevere.

 

A certain consensus is forming that this New World Order appears to be living its last days and a new world system is beginning to form. Will this be a new wave of communism? The New World Order resulted from an apparent victory on one side of the Cold War in the early nineties, without visible military victories and without being able to completely include its former enemies in the network of influence of the Western powers. This NWO is a so-called "decomcratic" system, completely secularized, with hedonistic and iniquitous laws, weak political leadership, financially based on the American dollar and wild capitalism, free movement of people, goods, internationalization of the productive system, etc... In the present historical moment, all of this shows signs of beginning to collapse.

A new world system with contours that are still difficult to perceive begins to form to replace the New World Order and there are many signs of this, such as the military alliances and strategic partnerships between Russia, Belarus, China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, etc that rival NATO and its allies. But also the emergence of the BRICS and the intention to create a new international monetary currency (a large part of trade between Russia and China no longer uses US dollars). China's growing hegemony in the world economy and increasingly also in technological terms. And so many other signs...

The war in Ukraine is the most obvious of all these signs. In this war there isn't a conflict between globalists and non-globalists, but a conflict between two different globalist systems and one of them will win, not just in Ukraine but in the whole world. Our hope is that Our Lady intervenes before the final victory of this conflict, and She will, as Malachi Martin said "a little bit late but not to late".