Nuns raising money for Russia's war against Ukraine

[mainer]

This is appalling.

The Church of Sweden has issued an official warning to its congregations not to invite nuns from Belarus's St. Elisabeth Convent, citing the monastery's financial support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its connections to Russian military intelligence.

The warning comes as evidence mounts that Moscow-affiliated religious institutions function as nodes in Russia's war machine. The convent's spiritual leader, Archpriest Andrey Lemeshonok, has publicly declared that his monastery "is also a combat unit" whose nuns "fight for our future."

The language echoes the Russian Orthodox Church's March 2024 declaration of Russia's invasion as a "holy war." Since 2022, the ROC has emerged as a key Kremlin partner in war crimes, blessing military aggression, spreading propaganda, and facilitating the deportation of Ukrainian civilians.

The warning specifically states that the convent's income supports Russia's invasion and that the monastery maintains close contacts with Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU, Swedish public broadcaster SVT reported.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/01/russian-nuns-funding-ukraine-war-sweden-church-warning/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[harumph]

1. It's a Russian Orthodox convent - not associated with the Roman or Lutheran Churches.

Pimpin for Putin.

[Igel]

2. Your archimandrite says, "Prygni!"

And you damned well prygnut'.

("jump&quot

[Duppers]

3. Unreal, isn't it ❓

The church siding with the aggressor.

[haele]

4. Not really. The culturally "Russian" former Soviets always saw

ethnic members of other Soviet nations as less than real citizens. Ukranians, like Georgians, were never considered real citizens to Muscovites and non-Jewish Belarussians, not during the Tsarist regime, nor the Soviet era.
And certainly not during the current Russian Mafia State era.
And as a kicker, since the 19th Century, the Russian Orthodox Church has been a cultural enforcement arm of whomever was in charge of the regional government, with the exception of the 15 -20 years between the fall of the Tsars and the point in which Stalin realized the Opiate of the Masses could be really, really useful to keep them in line and to identify and reduce the number of potential dissidents or free thinkers in regions a government agent would otherwise stand out.
Because that's what the Tsars did with the Russian Orthodox Church.
Kyril and Putin are just following established Tradition, having the Church being an arm of the State.