The Church could end the war in Ukraine
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The Church could end the war in Ukraine

As religion writer for the Edmonton Journal, I visited Ukraine in 1988, the 1,000th anniversary of the baptism of Vladimir the Great. Edmonton has the largest Ukrainian population of any city in Canada, and Canada has the most Ukrainians of any country outside of Russia and Ukraine itself. On my journey through Ukraine, I could…

The return of ‘Holy Russia’
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The return of ‘Holy Russia’

If there is a cold war between Russia and the West, it is very different from the one that lasted between 1945 and 1989. Communism is a spent force in Russia, having failed to realize its elusive goal of the classless society. Even if some of the old methods of repression are back, they are now being employed in the interest of a vision much older than that of Lenin, namely, the reconstitution of “Holy Russia.”