Support for Ukraine Growing Among US Christian Leaders |
One of the trends that occurred in Ukraine, even before the initial invasion by Moscow in 2014 and the reinvasion in 2022, has been the exponential growth of the Ukrainian Prayer Breakfast Movement, which has seen American Evangelical Christian and other leaders in attendance. This growth in attendance is indicative of Moscow’s persecution of Ukrainian Christians while Ukraine concurrently grows stronger as a Western Christian nation.
In 2008, for the first time in Ukraine’s history, a Parliamentary prayer group was formed “for spirituality, morality and health of Ukraine.” The year 2011 saw the first National Prayer Breakfast in Ukraine, with other government officials joining Ukrainian Members of Parliament in that endeavor two years later. In 2016, Ukraine’s president attended the Prayer Breakfast for the first time. The next year, the Prayer Breakfast was largely focused on orphaned and other disadvantaged children.
Louie Gohmert, the pro-Trump then-Congressman from Texas, spoke at the 2018 Prayer Breakfast, as did actor Stephen Baldwin. One year later, Pastor Jim Garlow of President Trump’s White House Spiritual........