Russia strikes Baptist church in Ukraine, killing pastor at prayer meeting

Russia struck a Baptist church in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia during a prayer meeting this week, killing at least one person, a minister, and injuring at least eight others. The Embassy of Ukraine in the U.S. gave the casualty figures in a public statement issued while rescue workers were still on the scene, identifying the targeted building as The House of the Gospel Church, which had served the community for years, according to Baptist Press.The embassy called the strike a deliberate attack on people of faith who had gathered peacefully to pray.Promoters of “A Faith Under Siege,” a...