🇻🇦⚡️- Pope Francis has stated that the war in Ukraine was partly caused by Western imperial ambitions.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- It has been revealed that the four Americans who were kidnapped by a Mexican cartel were drug dealers and criminals with lengthy rap sheets

🇦🇪🇵🇸⚡️- The United Arab Emirates has condemned Palestinian attacks against Israel in Tel Aviv and Adar

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- The United States State Department has stated they believe the Russian government is attempting to incite an insurrection in Moldova

🇺🇸⚡️- The United States House of Representatives has voted 419-0 to declassify all documents pertaining to the origins of COVID-19.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- PMC Wagner assault divisions have stormed the Artymovsk steel processing plant, a key stronghold in the city.

🇩🇪 Germany's capital Berlin will allow women to go topless in public swimming pools, in nod to Weimar past.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Israeli Special Forces raiding a Hamas cell.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Silicon Valley Bank has been closed by regulators after a serious 60% dump leading to fearful speculation in the banking sector. The FDIC has promised to protect insured deposits in the bank.

🇺🇸⚡️- Multiple banks across the United States are experiencing failures, including Wells Fargo.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Silicon Valley Bank has dropped by 62%, the most of any bank since the Great Recession.

🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been informed by President Zelensky's government that it is to be expelled from its holiest site - the Kiev Caves Lavra - by the end of March.

The canonically-recognised Orthodox church in the country has prayed and struggled there for over 1,000 years.

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🇺🇸⚡️- Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen has warned the House of Representatives of “economic collapse” due to defaulting

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡️ - Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a tweet encouraging Georgian protesters to "think twice" about installing a pro-Western government, comparing the situation in the country to the Euromaidan and implying Russia might launch a second "special military operation" to rectify it.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Tucker Carlson has revealed that the NSA hacked his cell phone in order to prevent him interviewing Vladimir Putin.

🇩🇪⚡️ - Germany's "Catholic" Synod has voted in favor of blessing gay "marriages", with 38 out of 58 bishops voting in support of a motion allowing them to be blessed. The Pope has previously condemned the idea gay "marriages" can be blessed, and has rebuked bishops' conferences in Europe for considering blessing them.

🇺🇦⚡️ - An Orthodox priest writing under condition of anonymity said in a statement that "the [Kiev] authorities took the Soviet model of 100 years ago and are applying it to the faithful of the canonical Orthodox Church. We have no rights, we have no protection, nobody wants to help us anymore."

Pray for the persecuted Christians in the Ukraine.