{"id":30126,"date":"2025-04-07T08:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=30126"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:51:03","slug":"russia-expands-the-influence-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-in-africa-to-destabilize-the-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/russia-expands-the-influence-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-in-africa-to-destabilize-the-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"russia expands the influence of the russian orthodox church in Africa to destabilize the continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia is rapidly expanding the influence of the russian orthodox church (roc) in Africa. In just three years of the roc exarchate\u2019s activity on the continent, parishes have been established in 30 countries, with half of them opened in 2022. This suggests that the roc\u2019s intensified efforts in Africa are directly tied to the kremlin\u2019s need to gain more allies after launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Under the guise of \u201cprotecting orthodox christians in Africa\u201d russia is expanding its influence and spreading propaganda across the continent. The roc tells local populations that russia has no ties to colonialism, racism, or slavery\u2014sensitive issues in Africa. However, this is a lie: the use of serfs and russia\u2019s colonial wars in the Caucasus, Asia, and Europe prove otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>As a powerful tool for promoting the ideology of the \u201crusskiy mir,\u201d the roc complements russia\u2019s military presence in Africa and seeks to boost international support for russian actions on the global stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia is rapidly expanding the influence of the russian orthodox church (roc) in Africa. In just three years of the roc exarchate\u2019s activity on the continent, parishes have been established in 30 countries, with half of them opened in 2022. This suggests that the roc\u2019s intensified efforts in Africa are directly tied to the kremlin\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":933,"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-south"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}