“The spirit of communism never left Russia”
by Petter Olsen, Evangelical Focus:
Over 500 representatives of evangelical churches and organisations in Europe attend the European Leadership Forum conference in Poland. A pastor from Kyiv shared details about the response of Christians during the invasion.
On the first night of the European Leadership Forum (ELF), which this year brings together between 500 and 600 evangelical Christians, the war in Ukraine was one of the first talking points. Stefan Gustavsson, member of the ELF steering committee interviewed Jaroslaw Lukasik, who leads the forum’s work in Eastern Europe.
The main group of the Eastern European Leadership Forum (EELF) network is formed by Russian-speaking Christians in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and Moldova, among others.
“People in Ukraine have lived in fear of this war for a long time. What is the reason for the Russian aggression against Ukraine?”, Gustavsson asked.
“In the West we have forgotten what war is, but war is still a part of humanity”, Lukasik began. He said there were many reasons why Russia went to war had no doubt about the main reason: “From my perspective, it is about the spirit of communism, which never left Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. We condemned Nazism, but we did not condemn Communism. So, when Putin saw the weakness of the West, this spirit came back, perhaps with seven even worse spirits”, Lukasik said, referring to Matthew 12:45.
Anglican Mainstream’s substantial selection of articles on the war in Ukraine can be found here.
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