Spires of St Sophia Cathedral, Kiev, Ukraine..Софійський собор, або Софія Київська — визначна памятка історії та архітектури України, розташована на Софійській площі міста Києва. Збудований у 1011–101ках київським князем Ярославом. Названий на честь Святої Софії. Мав статус кафедрального собору. З перервами був резиденцією київських митрополитів (православних та унійних). До XIII століття використовувався як головна церква Русі, місце поховання великих князів київських. При соборі велося літописання, була створена перша бібліотека. Занепав у XIV столітті. Відновлений стараннями митрополита Петра Могили і гетьмана Івана Мазепи. Був головним храмом Софійського монастиря (з 1638). Складова Національного заповідника «Софія Київська» (з 1934). Поєднує візантійський і бароковий архітектурні стилі. Одна з небагатьох уцілілих споруд часів Русі. Памятка української архітектури та монументального живопису XI—XVIII століть. Обєкт Світової спадщини ЮНЕСКО (1990).. 

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. on March 3 in the besieged Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk noted that the world’s attention was focused on the besieged Ukrainian city after Pope Francis’ initiative.

“Precisely in these days, especially after yesterday’s global day of prayer for peace in Ukraine, we perceive that Kyiv is being transformed into the spiritual capital of the world,Today, to this place, the eyes of people throughout the world are turned — of all churches, religions, and confessions. And thus, in a particular way we feel that inscription from the 46th Psalm of David in the central apse of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia: ‘God is in the midst of her, she shall not be shaken; God shall help her right early in the morning.’”

.烏克蘭的老百姓反對戰爭,為什麼沒有舉出十字架?

烏克蘭人士信仰天主教居多.上帝與我們同在?

The Lord is with us’Ukrainian Catholic leader: ‘Kyiv is being transformed into the spiritual capital of the world’ GOD SAVE UKRAINE PLEASE.

The cathedral, built under Prince Yaroslav the Wise in the 11th century, was modeled after the Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the spiritual and architectural heart of medieval Orthodoxy. The Kyiv cathedral includes mosaics and frescoes as old as 1,000 years, and it was a model for later churches in the region, according to UNESCO. St. Sophia’s, sacred both to Ukraine’s two main rival Orthodox churches and to Catholics, is currently a museum and isn’t normally used for religious services.

Two of the landmarks are associated with opposing sides in the schism within Ukrainian Orthodoxy.

The monastic complex is overseen by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is affiliated with the Orthodox patriarch of Moscow, though it has broad autonomy. St. Michael’s is the base for the more nationalist Orthodox Church of Ukraine. But the Ukrainian leaders of both Orthodox groups have harshly criticized the Russian invasion.

20220308 傳聞烏克蘭首都基輔.聖索菲亞主教座堂,遭受到俄羅斯軍隊的轟炸,目前尚未傳出受損毀的報導, 根據情報顯示出,烏克蘭總統VZ,.極有可能隱藏於此處,等待美國特種部隊的救援? 但是烏克蘭總統VZ,他是猶太人敵後裔也就是說以色列的特種部隊也插1腳趕赴烏克蘭救出VZ.?

因此消息走露而引來俄羅斯軍隊的火箭彈攻擊? .

.As the Russian invasion continues, Zelensky has reiterated his pleas for US and NATO assistance in establishing a no-fly zone over Ukraine -- a move which could prevent Russian forces from carrying out airstrikes against the country.Zelensky has repeatedly asked NATO and Western officials to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, but both say they oppose such a move.

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傳聞烏克蘭總統VZ.要躲藏於聖索菲亞主教座堂? 等待救援? 

VZ.他可能插翅難飛,因為NATO.美國都同意基輔上空為禁航區,換句話說任何飛機都無法穿越,即使美國派出F-22.F-35.隱形戰鬥機,配合黑鷹直昇機及特種部隊突擊營救VZ.也就是說NO WAY.由此觀之VZ.只好躲起來等待戰爭結束?.

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Attacking Ukrainian church: The Kremlin turns the Orthodox world into a battlefield.

Church in Kyiv continues services despite war raging on

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.教堂內部照常舉辦追思彌撒,紀念因為戰爭死者.VZ.可曾想到詐死躲在棺材內運出城外安葬後逃亡?

傳聞烏克蘭國安局計劃?

.VZ.並未表明他是猶太教或是天主教,基督教?

或是無神論者馬克思的信徒?

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烏克蘭總統VZ.可能詐死逃亡? 

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The symbols matter not only to the Ukrainian people but to Putin, too. He justified the invasion with baseless claims he was countering “neo-Nazism” in Ukraine — this in a country with a Jewish president.

Babyn Yar, a ravine in Kyiv, is where more than 33,000 Jews were killed within 48 hours in 1941 when the city was under Nazi occupation. The killing was carried out by SS troops along with local collaborators. It was one of the largest mass killings at a single location during World War II, according to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

.烏克蘭的阿兵哥奉命保護教堂

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Russia army use  multiple rocket launcher  attack ..Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, ?

傳聞俄羅斯軍隊以火箭炮攻擊基輔聖索菲亞大教堂?

Impending Russian attack on the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Kyiv?

Ukrainian intelligence reports suggest that Russian forces may deliberately target and attempt to destroy Saint Sophia, the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom, in downtown Kyiv. If such an attack took place, it would be an attack of cultural barbarism even worse than the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan in 2001, which was cultural vandalism more-or-less detached from politics. The destruction of Saint Sophia would embody in a uniquely vicious way Vladimir Putin’s attempt to rewrite the history of eastern Slavic Christianity in support of his campaign of post-Cold War Russian imperialism, which would be cultural vandalism in aid of political tyranny .

Built in the early 11th century, Saint Sophia is Ukraine’s national sanctuary and the country’s most cherished monument to the baptism of the eastern Slavs in 988. Magnificently restored in recent decades, after the depredations of the Soviet period when it was turned into a museum, its golden domes and extraordinary mosaics are of such historical, aesthetic, and cultural value that it has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Perhaps more to the immediate point, Saint Sophia symbolizes the vibrant Ukrainian national identity, and the linkage of that identity to the baptism of Rus’ in 988, that Vladimir Putin seems hell-bent on destroying.Earlier today, Major-Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church issued the following appeal to the world from a bomb shelter:

We have received information that the Russian army plans an air strike on the most venerable holy site of the Ukrainian people since the time of Kyivan Rus – the Cathedral of Saint Sophia in Kyiv. His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Head and Father of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, calls upon all Christians to pray for the protection of this holy site of all Slavic peoples and calls upon the aggressor to refrain from this most horrific act of vandalism.

Those prayers should arise from every Christian heart as Christians throughout the world count down the hours to the beginning of Lent.More can and should be done, however. On the assumption that the intelligence that led to the Major-Archbishop’s appeal has been shared with Western governments by the Zelensky government in Ukraine, Western leaders should waste no time in informing the Kremlin that the destruction of the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Kyiv by Russian forces will lead to an immediate and even more draconian imposition of economic sanctions, including the cut-off of all Russian exports, oil and gas included; the acceleration of efforts by the International Criminal Court to bring war-crimes indictments against Russian officials; and the seizure of Russian assets held in non-Russian financial institutions.

For decades now, Vladimir Putin, whom some deluded souls imagine to be some sort of Christian figure, has deployed a warped misrepresentation of the history of eastern Slavic Christianity to buttress his attempts to reverse the verdict of the Cold War and reassemble something resembling the old Soviet Union. Three days before the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Putin gave an hour-long address in which he claimed, in effect, that Ukraine had no past of its own, and therefore should have no future of its own.

In this assault on historical truth, Putin has been aided and abetted by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church, which endorses his preposterous claim that the sole legitimate heir of the baptism of the eastern Slavs in 988 is Russia. Thus religious authorities throughout the world should contact Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and demand that he exert whatever influence he has to forestall a blasphemous act of destruction in Kyiv. Vatican officials who imagine they can play some sort of mediating role in the war on Ukraine should be the first on the phone to the headquarters of the Russian Orthodox Church, demanding protection for an artifact of Christian history that antedates the split of 1054 between Christian East and Christian West. Saint Sophia is uniquely of Kyiv, but it belongs spiritually to all Christians, and Patriarch Kirill should be forcefully reminded of that.

It was entirely predictable that Russian anti-personnel attacks on civilians would intensify as the Russian military’s bumbling performance in Ukraine failed to deliver the blitzkrieg victory that Mr. Putin evidently anticipated, self-deluded as he was about the unreality of Ukrainian nationhood. In response to Ukraine’s heroic resistance, the defense ministry in Moscow has publicly announced that Kyiv will be subject to bombing and missile attack. It is Afghanistan and Syria and Chechnya all over again – barbaric assaults on the innocent that have no connection to military reason, or military honor. That, it seems, is the Russian way of war, whether under communism or under those whose consciences seem to have been terminally warped by communism, like ex-KGB agent Putin.

The world must let Vladimir Putin, those who surround and enable him, and the Russian military leadership know that they will be international pariahs if this barbarity continues, and if Saint Sophia is one of its victims.

.Snow covers the city center with a Christmas tree, St. Sophia Cathedral, foreground, and St. Michael Cathedral, background, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 21, 2021..

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..耶穌像及教堂後院聖母母瑪麗亞像

.Kiev’s first UNESCO site, the 13 spires of the 11th century Byzantine St Sophia Cathedral contrast wildly with the more modern concrete blocks courtesy of communism. Named for the famous church-turned-mosque the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul/Constantinople, the Hagia Sophia is one of the best architectural relics of the Kievan Rus. With ground broken in 1011, St Sophia’s Cathedral celebrated its 1000th anniversary in 2011! Like many religious buildings, its history has been far from peaceful. St Sophia was pillaged in 1169 and again in 1240, leading to abandonment and disrepair, including the loss of irreplaceable wall paintings. It was later damaged again in the 1500s when Poland and Ukraine joined forces in a misguided (and doomed to fail) attempt to unite the Catholic and Orthodox churches. It was claimed by several Orthodox communities – notably, the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church and the Moldavian Orthodox Church, who made repairs to St Sophia in the Ukrainian Baroque style. The Soviets wanted to destroy the cathedral and turn it into park, and indeed they managed to do so with St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery at the other end of the boulevard. But its popularity and reputation caused many to speak for the cathedral and St Sophia was saved, instead being turned into a history museum. And today, due to arguments over which branch of Orthodoxy should hold the rights to this ancient place, St Sophia remains a museum, frequented more by tourists than by members of the Orthodox community.

聖索菲亞大教堂或索菲亞大教堂（烏克蘭語：Собор святої Софії）是一座位於基輔市中心的大教堂，建於十一世紀上半葉，按照編年史的記載，屬於智者雅羅斯拉夫大公統治時期。在十七世紀至十八世紀過渡期間，按照烏克蘭巴洛克式風格的建築形式對其進行了外部整修。在教堂內部，保存了繪於十一世紀早期，並且是世界上保存最為完整的鑲嵌畫（260平方米）和濕壁畫（3000平方米）創作群，^[1]另外還有大量十七到十八世紀的壁畫殘片。 1929年以前，教堂一直都做為重要的宗教活動場所，1934年成為博物館--索菲亞文物保護區，現今是國家核心文物保護單位「基輔索菲亞」，是烏克蘭最大的博物館之一。 在1990年，聖索菲亞大教堂和基輔洞窟修道院一同被列入聯合國教科文組織世界文化遺產名錄，成為了烏克蘭的標誌性建築。

.Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, is an architectural monument of Kyivan Rus. The former cathedral is one of the citys best known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kyiv Cave Monastery complex.^[] Aside from its main building, the cathedral includes an ensemble of supporting structures such as a bell tower and the House of Metropolitan. In 2011 the historic site was reassigned from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Regional Development of Ukraine to the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.^[ One of the reasons for the move was that both Saint Sophia Cathedral and Kyiv Pechersk Lavra are recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Program as one complex, while in Ukraine the two were governed by different government entities. It is currently a museum.

In Ukrainian the cathedral is known as Sobor Sviatoi Sofii (Собор Святої Софії) or Sofiiskyi sobor (Софійський собор).

The complex of the cathedral is the main component and museum of the National Sanctuary "Sophia of Kyiv" which is the state institution responsible for the preservation of the cathedral complex as well as four other historic landmarks across the nation.