Adventist church leaders from Russia and Ukraine urges peacekeeping, prayer Kiev/Moscow | 12.03.2014 | Religion + State A common statement released by top Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries invites Adventist church members and “all people of good will” to participate in the “ministry of reconciliation” as political turmoil in Ukraine deepens. Pro-Russian separatists in Crimea voted last week to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, just days after thousands of Russian troops began patrolling the disputed Black Sea peninsula. A region-wide referendum for