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Angelina Jolie is “devastated and guilt-ridden” after her Ukrainian bodyguard was detained by the army and conscripted into military service during her humanitarian visit to the war-torn country.

Sources close to the Hollywood star, 50, say she believes her presence may have inadvertently triggered the incident – with one insider calling it “a nightmare she can’t stop replaying.”

Jolie was traveling through southern Ukraine on November 5 as part of a UNICEF mission when her security escort, 33-year-old Dmytro Pyshchikov, was stopped at a military checkpoint in Pivdennoukrainsk.

Guards discovered he had no valid exemption from service and ordered him to the local Territorial Recruitment Center in Voznesensk, Mykolaiv region – the department overseeing enlistment for the ongoing defense against Russian forces.

His family has not heard from him since. (Read more from “Angelina Jolie ‘Consumed by Guilt’ Over Bodyguard Being ‘Kidnapped’ by Ukraine Army and Forced Into War — ‘She Thinks It’s All Her Fault’” HERE)

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The media are covering Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken” – but will they admit the film’s influence on her faith?

Opening in theaters on Christmas, “Unbroken” tells the story of Olympic runner and World War II prisoner of war Louis Zamperini. His story – and Christian faith – inspired Jolie to kneel and “pray for a miracle” as she ran into problems directing the war drama.

During a Dec. 5 press conference in New York, Zamperini’s daughter Cynthia Garris told the story of Jolie’s turn to prayer. While Jolie directed filming in New South Wales, Australia, she encountered severe weather. Garris explained:

She was not a person of faith and had never prayed before but she found herself at the very last scene of the movie … they needed sunlight to shoot this very important scene and there had been a storm that had been going for a while.

In response, Jolie begged God for help:

Angelina] said ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do so I’ll do what Louie would do.’ She got on her knees and she prayed for a miracle … everybody saw it … It stopped raining. The sun came out, a rainbow came out, she said, ‘let’s get this take’ [and] they shot the take. When she said ‘cut,’ it started to rain again.

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