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At Easter liturgy, Moscow Patriarch describes Ukraine as part of ‘historical Russia’
April 17, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: At an Easter Vigil liturgy attended by President Vladimir Putin, Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, referred to the invasion of Ukraine as a “grave [event] taking place on our Russian historical land” and prayed “that peace and a common good life [and] fraternal relations again unite our peoples, who were once the one people of united Russia.”
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