{"id":88001,"date":"2026-11-01T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88001"},"modified":"2026-11-01T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:25:13","slug":"russia-has-killed-120-members-of-the-clergy-zelensky-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/russia-has-killed-120-members-of-the-clergy-zelensky-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Has Killed 120 Members Of The Clergy, Zelensky Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<em> \u00a0The Kyiv Independent:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Russian attacks have killed about 120 members of the clergy in Ukraine and damaged over 800 religious institutions since the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview on Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of them were a thousand years old, and they were attacked en masse with drones and missiles, both cruise and ballistic,&#8221; Zelensky said. &#8220;This is horrific and crazy.&#8221; Zelensky spoke about Russian attacks on clergy in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y5q3MhGQa6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This Week on Capitol Hill<\/a>. Host Tony Perkins asked him to respond to American commentators, including Tucker Carlson, who have accused Kyiv of persecuting religious minorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0 \u00a0The Kyiv Independent: Russian attacks have killed about 120 members of the clergy in Ukraine and damaged over 800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88002,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88001\/revisions\/88002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}