“Evil never stops on its own. Someone has to stop it,” believes Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko of the Church of Good Changes. When the Russian army attacked Ukraine in 2014 the Protestant pastor did not think long about which side to take. Together with his sons, he began digging trenches around Mariupol to stop the advancing evil.

Am 18. November 2024 wird es 1.000 Tage her sein, dass Russland die Ukraine angegriffen hat. Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko arbeitet als Militärseelsorger an den Frontlinien des Krieges in der Ukraine. Was der evangelikale Christ dabei erlebt und welche inneren Kämpfe er selbst durchstehen muss, hat er IDEA-Redakteurin Erika Gitt erzählt. Gennadiy Mokhnenkos Leben gleicht einem

One year after a tragic bombing of a humanitarian aid depot and shelter in a front line town, a 10/11 reporter returns to the rubble.

Chaplain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and father of 41 children (38 of whom are adopted) serves on the front lines and dreams of returning to his hometown.

On April 12, the new project “100 Crosses – 100 Peaks – 100 Gratitudes” by the Pilgrim Charity Foundation was launched. The goal of the project is to climb 100 Carpathian peaks and install 100 Christian crosses, which will symbolize gratitude to God, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and partners for their support and help in difficult times. To date, four crosses have already been installed.

After Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, some 20,000 Ukrainian children were forcefully transferred to Russia. As the city of Mariupol was being surrounded by Russian troops, the head of a Christian orphanage decided to take matters into his own hands to get 19 children to safety. With support from the Pulitzer Center, special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky reports.