WEBINAR | Ukraine's Faith Communities in the Path of Destruction

WEBINAR | Ukraine's Faith Communities
in the Path of Destruction

4:30 pm ET, Thursday, March 17

Join us for an important discussion on Ukraine’s diverse faith communities and the sacred historic sites imperiled as Russian President Vladimir Putin carves a path of destruction through this ancient land.

“Many of Ukraine’s historic faith communities and their churches have stood for centuries. They survived the German Nazis and Soviet Communists—will they now survive Putin?” asks Dede Laugesen, executive director of Save the Persecuted Christians. “Those Ukrainian religious leaders who in recent years have split from the Russian Orthodox Church are certain to be targeted by advancing troops—their punishment will almost certainly be death. We’ve already heard that Russian forces shot and killed a priest in a village outside of Kyiv on the last day of February. And, the endlessly tormented and fragile community of Ukrainian Jews—many of them elderly—simply may not survive this latest onslaught.”

On Thursday, March 17 at 4:30 pm ET, Save the Persecuted Christians will host a panel of experts to examine what is at risk for people of faith in Ukraine and what Putin may do to them if Russia should triumph.

Moderator:

• Frank Gaffney, President & CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians

Host:

• Dede Laugesen, Executive Director of Save the Persecuted Christians

Panelists:

• The Honorable Sam Brownback, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from 2018 to 2021.
   
• Lauren Homer, esq., Founder & President, Law and Liberty International; Owner, Homer International Law PLLC at Law and Liberty International; Providing a focus on laws affecting NGO’s, faith-based, and religious organizations in many countries, including Russia and former Soviet republics.
   
• Rabbi Michael Schiffman, Executive Director of Chevra USA serving elderly Ukrainian Jews since 1993
   
• Rev. Gregory Golyzniak, a Polish Pastor serving St. Peter’s Catholic Church of Monument, CO since 2013 and a PhD student in Sacred Architecture with an emphasis on the Gothic architecture of the 11th-17th centuries
   
• Oleg Atbashian, a Ukrainian born U.S. citizen whose parents are in central Ukraine. Founder and host of the satirical site PeoplesCube.com, Oleg is an author and artist who uses humor and ridicule to inform on life lived under the former Soviet Union