As a boy, Mark Rutte aspired to become a concert pianist. But as a Prime Minister of the Netherlands, he once preached a sermon on Sunday.

An Evangelical Christian must serve two years and six months in a penal colony because he did not want to fight in Ukraine.

While the Russian Orthodox Church already supported the invasion of Ukraine, it now also opposes pacifism. The defence of that is heresy, according to them.

The Ukrainian Mykhailo Yavorsky may have to go to jail. The reason? His conscience forbids him to fight against Russia. "I would not carry weapons or put on a uniform because I can't kill a person."

Margot Käßmann is critical of her own church denomination. The former chair of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) says that the Church should not be so keen to support weapon deliveries to Ukraine.