Russian activist detained for anti-Putin prayer

An opposition activist was detained and beaten Sunday after he tried to enter Moscow's landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral to pray to deliver Russia from Vladimir Putin.

Several riot police officers forced Roman Dobrokhotov into a police car just meters (feet) from Russia's largest church, widely seen as a symbol of resurgent Orthodox Christianity after seven decades of atheist Communist rule. Dobrokhotov, who leads a small anti-Kremlin youth movement, heckled President Dmitry Medvedev during his speech in the Kremlin in 2008.

Another activist, Mariya Baronova, of the Resistance anti-Kremlin group, entered the cathedral, but was cornered by a group of Orthodox priests and men who tried to escort her out.

A dozen activists from the militant Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers group lined up in front of the cathedral, shouting obscenities at Dobrokhotov and Baronova. The group is known for dispersing gay rallies, and for protesting against pop star Madonna's shows in Russia and burning Harry Potter books.

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msjallen

The preview of coming attractions in America by BH0 if we get another 4 years of his reign in WDC. Please vote against 0. And in the meantime…
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by MY name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
HOW?
II Peter 3:8… but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity.
- daves
  
  Romans 13:1-14
  Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
  - Bobseeks
    
    As usual daves you lie and misuse Scripture. The following is the model Christians must follow.
    
    27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, 28 saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!” 29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.
    
    Acts 5:27-29
    - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
      
      As usual, the bible says contradictory things.
      - keyboardshark
        
        Jeff says: "As usual, the bible says contradictory things."
        
        It's not contradictory. We are to obey rulers and authorities (Romans 13), but if those rulers and authorities tell us to do something contrary to the Bible, we must disobey (Acts 5). They are complementary, not contradictory.
      - Evermyrtle
        
        God does not as a usual thing, give insight to ant-CHRIST people. Once in a while HE does and when that happens the ant-CHRIST is stopped in his tracks and does a complete turn away from evil. Hang in there it might happen to you. but you can get the truth if if you want it. HE is just waiting for you to seek HIM., then you will understand.
      - http://rationalresponses.blogspot.com/ Jeff Dixon
        
        Myths do not give insight to anyone.
      - http://youtu.be/zjgBhpanOfQ Despeville
        
        You are a sad myth who believed his growing gut rather the One who created you.
      - katja
        
        The ones who say the Bible contradicts….don't know the bible…God Bless us all!!
      - Davidmgus
        
        Doesn't Luke 14:26 look a little like a contradiction of other passages? Isn't the passage exhorting us to hate family members?
  - msjallen
    
    daves, that is only verse one of Rom 13. If God allows someone like 0 to rule then we all fall under his authority and that is why we all need to turn to God for His grace to sustain us through the discipline of this nation.
    I Tim 2:1-2 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
http://twitter.com/lambsev11 @lambsev11

Suffering for being a Christian? I don't think so…

Romans 8:16-18
16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
aceituna

Be thankful that we still can protest and pray for deliverence from evil government. Pray that this type of persecution will not be allowed in our country. Do not vote for Obama! Vote for those who wish to keep our liberties listed in the constitution intact.
reinhold

Response to a false report by Zionica. " Moscow— An opposition activist was detained Sunday after he tried to enter Moscow's landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral to pray to deliver Russia from Vladimir Putin." This false repost is part of the Jewist campaign to defame Russia inteh same manner they defame Germany and all that do not buy the Biggest Lie that Jewists are the Chosen Children of the Promise. Those arrested for invasion of the Church were not beaten. Neither were they arrested for "Free Speech" but "Hooliganism (Riot) and Blaspheme on the complaint of the clergy of the Orthodox Church and responsible for the sanctity of the Christ The Savior Cathedral – a National Monument . These arrested riotous blasphemers are not innocent. The compliant was by the Orthodox Clergy and the True Christians of Russian. This of course includes Vladimir Putin and the popular leadership of Russia. The hate-felled Jewists publish lies like this report to distort the truth and to slander and defame Russian Christians. Americans are too cowardly to condemn the blasphemer and Bolshevist Jewists that rule America on her path toward the abyss of teh abomination of Jewist servitude, war and damnation.

SEE: http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/russian-acti…
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Members of an Orthodox militant group stand in line in front of the Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral to prevent access of opposition activists to the Cathedral in Moscow, Sunday, April 29, 2012. Opposition activists planned to pray to Holy Mother to deliver Russia from Vladimir Putin. They planned to repeat the "punk prayer" by five members of the feminist band Pussy Riot briefly who seized the pulpit of Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in February and chanted "Mother Mary, drive Putin away." Three band members have been arrested and now face up to seven years in jail on charges of hooliganism. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
http://www.antiochian.org/node/23448
Reuters Moscow Bureau reports, "Russia officially celebrated a new holiday on Wednesday marking its conversion to Christianity in 988, the latest Kremlin boost to an Orthodox Church that has grown increasingly powerful since the fall of Communism.

Vladimir Putin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

Vladimeir Putin is hated by the Globalist Jewry that continue to wage a war of global conquest . Christian leader Vladimir Putin has stopped WW III on at least 4 occasions. This false report will fail like all the other lies by the hate-filled Zionist Jewist Bolshevist murderers. Defend the synagogue of satan at your peril. No King But King Yeshua. In His service, Reinhold
- Bobseeks
  
  You are a fool. The orthodox "church" is not Christian but a church of idolators like the roman church.
  - myth buster
    
    Who is your bishop, Bobseeks? The Bible says you're supposed to have one. And don't reply to me be naming your pastor, because I didn't ask who your pastor was; I asked who your bishop was. If you don't have a bishop, you are NOT in a Biblical church. If your pastor was not ordained by a bishop, he is not a lawful minister, but rather a self-appointed pastor.
edcrandall

Christians Wake Up! We need to pray daily for our country and live like we believe the Bible. If you were to be accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?