{"id":112403,"date":"2022-02-25T18:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=112403"},"modified":"2022-02-25T18:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:33:19","slug":"old-image-of-people-of-ukrain-praying-in-the-snow-shared-as-recent-ongoing-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-image-of-people-of-ukrain-praying-in-the-snow-shared-as-recent-ongoing-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Ukrainians praying in snow is not related to ongoing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, an image featuring a group of people praying on their knees in the snow has been circulating on social media. It has been claimed that the image shows the tense state of affairs where Ukrainians are praying in the freezing cold.<\/p>\n<p>Christine Caine, founder of Propel Women, tweeted that the image was posted by her friend @SheilaWalsh. The photo shows Ukrainian Christians praying for their nation on their knees in the snow, she claimed. Christine also appealed to her followers to join them in prayer. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220224114748\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristineCaine\/status\/1495114016179605508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My friend \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheilaWalsh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SheilaWalsh<\/a>\u2069 posted this picture of Ukrainian Christians praying for their nation, in the snow, on their knees. I know &amp; love so many people in this nation. I\u2019ve been going for over 20 years. We have an office there. Would you join us in prayer? I\u2019m heartbroken. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2FXgjK6bVL\">pic.twitter.com\/2FXgjK6bVL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christine Caine (@ChristineCaine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristineCaine\/status\/1495114016179605508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Croatian member of parliament Mariana Peter also tweeted the image as recent. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220224114957\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/marijana_petir\/status\/1495833090350108675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ukrainian Christians pray outdoors, in the snow, for their country in this phase of war danger. Let&#8217;s pray for people in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a> in these particularly critical times; may God grant wisdom, discernment, strength, courage, protection to the authorities and to the whole population! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SPPrEatTZK\">pic.twitter.com\/SPPrEatTZK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marijana Petir (@marijana_petir) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marijana_petir\/status\/1495833090350108675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is also being circulated with a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BabitaGautam_\/status\/1496776161417859073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hindi caption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-112404 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/word-image-21.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/word-image-21.jpeg 594w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/word-image-21-244x300.jpeg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The photo is widespread on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Ukrainian%20Christians%20pray%20outdoors%2C%20in%20the%20snow%2C%20for%20their%20country%20in%20the%20phase%20of%20danger%20of%20war&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/photos\/?q=BREAKING%20-%20Ukrainian%20Christians%20pray%20outdoors%2C%20in%20the%20snow%2C%20for%20their%20country%20in%20this%20phase%20of%20war%20danger&amp;sde=Abp7PAnz5NKv8OclC8tD5ORYMNJTBO5Udu_w14vNVPVOZJBa9ORBka-5fJ3KpPkxFeibq0B2ZKDT5WkmaNQ6GDOIziocAXDU5-LK-oNYsYSV5eUaWa2XpO_YUJHvuCVASfpr0tEUsRnP6PmstzWJVpvVIR3EsoBoRJ4rrwP-HXoJ25Vspe09R7cTj_SF8JMnkR1bkUXTS8REPNNbxe5I6y6uqhefBG9jQqIhFnSUtdBDaYQFBKDWi7WELowCzrEJLh8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-112403 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-image-of-people-of-ukrain-praying-in-the-snow-shared-as-recent-ongoing-conflict\/2022-02-24-18_37_20-compressed\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1711\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_37_20-compressed.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_37_20-compressed.jpg 1711w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_37_20-compressed-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_37_20-compressed-1024x381.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_37_20-compressed-768x286.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_37_20-compressed-1536x572.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1711px) 100vw, 1711px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-image-of-people-of-ukrain-praying-in-the-snow-shared-as-recent-ongoing-conflict\/2022-02-24-18_35_24-14-ukrainian-christians-pray-outdoors-in-the-snow-for-their-country-in-the-p\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"581\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_35_24-14-Ukrainian-Christians-pray-outdoors-in-the-snow-for-their-country-in-the-p.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_35_24-14-Ukrainian-Christians-pray-outdoors-in-the-snow-for-their-country-in-the-p.jpg 581w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_35_24-14-Ukrainian-Christians-pray-outdoors-in-the-snow-for-their-country-in-the-p-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-image-of-people-of-ukrain-praying-in-the-snow-shared-as-recent-ongoing-conflict\/2022-02-24-18_35_34-14-ukrainian-christians-pray-outdoors-in-the-snow-for-their-country-in-the-p\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"587\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_35_34-14-Ukrainian-Christians-pray-outdoors-in-the-snow-for-their-country-in-the-p.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_35_34-14-Ukrainian-Christians-pray-outdoors-in-the-snow-for-their-country-in-the-p.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/2022-02-24-18_35_34-14-Ukrainian-Christians-pray-outdoors-in-the-snow-for-their-country-in-the-p-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>By performing a simple reverse image search, Alt News found the image in an article by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/2019\/09\/25\/standing-on-our-knees-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Mission Board<\/a> dated September 25, 2019. The Christian news platform mentioned that the image was taken in Kharkiv, a city in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/2019\/09\/25\/standing-on-our-knees-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As per the article<\/a>, Russian separatists had attacked Ukraine\u2019s eastern region in March 2014, prompting pastors and evangelical leaders to put out a call for prayer. Within a week, over 100 people gathered there to pray. Police and army personnel issued threats to the prayer group created in 2014. It also states that separatists had attacked the neighboring cities of Luhansk and Donetsk. Journalist Nicole Leigh herself participated in these prayer meetings held in Kharkiv\u2019s Freedom Square and wrote this article sharing her experience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-112406 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/word-image-22.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/word-image-22.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/word-image-22-296x300.jpeg 296w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/word-image-22-768x777.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Russia had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aajtak.in\/world\/story\/russia-ukraine-war-vladimir-putin-2008-russo-georgia-war-crimea-annexation-2014-ntc-1417513-2022-02-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seized control of Ukraine\u2019s Crimea<\/a> region.<\/p>\n<p>To sum it up, an old image of Ukrainians kneeling in prayer in the snow was falsely shared as a visual of the ongoing conflict in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, an image featuring a group of people praying on their knees in the snow has been circulating on social media. It has been claimed that the image shows the tense state of affairs where Ukrainians are praying in the freezing cold. Christine Caine, founder of Propel Women, tweeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":112411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[664],"class_list":["post-112403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-economics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/02\/mayavati-bjp-vot-2-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112475,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112403\/revisions\/112475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112403"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=112403"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=112403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}