From: The Roys Report By Ken Camp
A 63-year-old Russian Pentecostal pastor received a four-year sentence for preaching against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an Oslo-based news service focused on human rights and religious freedom reported.
On Sept. 3, the Balashikha City court sentenced Pastor Nikolay Romanyuk to four years imprisonment in a labor camp—followed by a three-year ban on administering any website—for an anti-war sermon he preached in 2022, Forum 18 reported.
Prosecutors accused the pastor of urging his audience—in person and online—to obstruct the work of military registration and enlistment offices in a sermon he delivered in September 2022 at Holy Trinity Pentecostal Church.
In the sermon, Romanyuk called the Russian invasion of Ukraine “not our war.”
In his final speech to the court, Romanyuk refused to back down.
Voice of Ukraine 