Pro-Russian separatists in Crimea voted last week to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, just days after thousands of Russian troops began patrolling the disputed Black Sea peninsula. A region-wide referendum for secession is set for March 16. A majority of Crimea’s 2.3 million people identify as ethnic Russians.
In February, Viktor Alekseenko, president of the Adventist Church in Ukraine, asked Adventists to pray for their country and avoid provoking hostility—on the streets and on social media, where he urged church members not to leave inflammatory comments." ANN
Now I exhort you, brothers,
by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that you all say the same thing and there not be divisions among you,
and that you be made complete in the same mind and with the same purpose.
1 Corinthians 1:10
