THE SYRIAN REFUGEE WAVE HITS EUROPE: INVASION, IMMIGRATION, OR BOTH?

Breitbart.com ^ | 9 September 2015 | Ben Shapiro

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Russia’s Justice Ministry has registered 14,616 Orthodox parishes, 4,409 Protestant parishes, and 234 Catholic parishes. But Anatoly Pchelintsev, a religion specialist and professor at the Russian State Humanitarian University, estimates that for every registered Protestant congregation, there are at least two unregistered ones.

Pchelintsev, who edits the Religion and Law publication here, concludes that Russia has about 15,000 Protestant congregations, roughly equal to the number of Russian Orthodox ones. He says the number of Catholic parishes is roughly the same as the official number.

In Siberia, long a land of dissenters and discontents, there are believed to be more Protestants in church on Sunday mornings than Russian Orthodox. On one recent visit to Khabarovsk, the second largest city of the Russian Far East, I went to a packed Baptist church, only a kilometer from a sparsely attended Russian Orthodox Cathedral. The massive Cathedral had been built with federal funds.

http://blogs.voanews.com/russia-watch/2013/07/30/is-russia-turning-protestant/

Baptists, 7th Day Adventists, Pentacostals, Evangelicals of all stripe are under persecution from Siberia to Belarus. This is an explosion of protestant activity.

http://www.forum18.org/

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Thanks for the info. I knew about what was going on in China but didn’t realize it was going on in Eastern Europe too

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Not just eastern Europe bu all across Russia including Siberia. In the past 30 years, evangelical denominations have exploded where the orthodox church one reigned supreme. This is the protestant reformation 2.0 and could be bloodier than the first one. The state backs the orthodox church - which is more catholic than the Roman church.