UOC military priests to deliver Holy Fire to ATO-JFO zone
Holy Fire. Photo: news.church.ua
A group of military priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on Bright Week Tuesday, May 4, 2021, will go to the zone of the Joint Forces Operation (formerly the Anti-Terrorist Operation) to deliver the Holy Fire there, the Information and Education Department of the UOC reports.
The priests of the UOC will go to the East of Ukraine with the Holy Fire after the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The Easter spiritual mission was blessed by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
The group of military priests of the UOC will be headed by Archpriest Vyacheslav Yakovenko, head of the pastoral care sector for internationalist soldiers and combatants of the Synodal Department of the UOC for interaction with the Armed Forces and other military formations of Ukraine.
As the UOJ reported, the Chernivtsi diocese believes that the OCU uses the funeral of the ATO fighters for political propaganda.
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