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Eastern Orthodox clergy staying with their parishioners in Ukraine’s embattled east

The situation when the priest leaves his parish is “abnormal from the ministerial point of view as external sufferings cannot be an excuse for leaving the service”, says Patriarch Kirill
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all-Russia
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all-Russia

MOSCOW, September 24. /ITAR-TASS/. In spite of combat operations in Ukraine’s southeast, most of the clerics have been staying with their parishioners, even at the risk for their lives, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church told reporters on Wednesday.