Six weeks ago, the New Life Radio team occupied a sleek, modern space on the top floor of a Christian university building in Odesa, Ukraine. The walls were decorated with the silhouette of a sunglasses-wearing Jesus fish over a plaque bearing the Reformation motto “Sola fide” and its Russian translation, “Tolko veroy.”
Today, split between two locations and dramatically short-staffed, the radio station is pushing ahead with its mission to bring 24/7 Christian broadcasting to the Russian-speaking world and drawing up plans to expand its evangelism to Ukrainian speakers in the coming months.
Previously based in Moscow, New Life Radio (NLR) relocated to Odesa in 2019 amid tightening Russian restrictions on press and religious freedoms. More recently, faced with an imminent invasion in Ukraine, the team began preparing for another relocation a few months before Russia…
