Ukrainian Pastor Pavlo Unguryan, speaking out to Newsmax on Wednesday from the First Baptist of Odesa in southern Ukraine, said Christmas Day attacks on his country’s evangelical churches have become common because the Russians “very much hate Ukrainian Christmas.”
“They hate Ukrainian evangelicals because we decide to be together with all Christian civilization in these days of December, when the Christmas season, holy season, come to our Earth, to our planet,” Unguryan said on Newsmax’s “National Report.”
“From the atheistic time, Russian propaganda, atheistic propaganda put Christmas just on second place to move up the New Year and Communist Party and the same tradition have in Russia,” the pastor said. “They don’t want to have a Christmas as a main celebration in the winter season.”
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