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Friday
May232014

Armed Terrorists Storm a Prayer Tent in Donetsk: they threatened to shoot everybody

New development form Tania Oleksenko
Pray for pastor Sergey Kosyak, who went today to separatist's camp after Praying tend was torn down by them to speak and ask for peace and now is badly beaten, his car is taken.

Today, at 1:30 PM, 15 armed terrorists sporting Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) logos and St. George ribbons stormed the prayer tent in Donetsk where two church workers were keeping watch.

This news comes to us from Tsenzor.NET, citing Novosti Donbassa. 

The terrorists seized equipment, the storage battery, speakers and microphone, and threw the banner and torn tent into the Kalmius River. 

The attackers threatened worshippers, saying that "if believers congregate here in the evening for worship, they will all be shot."

"Dear journalists, international observers, residents and visitors! Tonight, just as in the previous 77 days, we shall pray. Recall that tomorrow on May 24, an interfaith prayer is slated to be held from 12 PM to 1 PM on Constitution Square. In these troubled times in our country, people of diverse faiths throughout Ukraine join together in prayer that God will heal our country and send us peace. We pray that instead of killing and hatred, may there be love and reconciliation. 

The interfaith prayer will take place in all the local centers of Ukraine, at one and the same time. Donetsk, too, will join in our communal prayer.  If you love God, the people, and the homeland, we invite you to join us in our hour of standing in prayer. This event is purely religious, and so we ask you to please refrain from political statements and rhetoric. We invite the public and the media to take part in this interfaith prayer for Ukraine," wrote Pastor Sergey Kosyak on Facebook.

Pastor Sergey Kosyak on the photo.