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Why Russian priests are being expelled from a monastery in Kyiv

25 March 2023

4:41 AM

25 March 2023

4:41 AM

In my hometown we have three Orthodox churches, two of which are formally aligned with the Moscow patriarchate. They mostly say Russian prayers but, growing up, this was not seen as important. My family would go to both and see them as interchangeable: you’d stand, pray, kiss icons, take communion.

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