Putin’s War and the Fracturing of Faith in Ukraine
April 5, 2022
Religion News Service recently hosted a conversation about the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on religion and geopolitics. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought to a head divisions among Orthodox Christians that have intensified since the Maidan Revolution of 2014 and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Now Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow’s support for President Vladimir Putin promises to further fracture the Russian church and to fragment global Orthodox Christianity. Listen to the full conversation below.
Panelists for this conversation include:
Elizabeth Prodromou of Tufts University’s Fletcher School, where she directs the Initiative on Religion, Law, and Diplomacy
Rev. John Burgess of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and author of “Holy Rus’: The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia”
Mark Silk, director of Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and professor of religion in public life at Trinity University and RNS columnist
The panel was moderated by Roxanne Stone, managing editor of RNS.
Watch the conversation here:
