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anniversary, the Church commemorated the date with militarized worship and events across the country.Over the past three years, clergy
members have baptized 42,000 soldiers on the front lines, built 140 field churches, and dispatched 2,000 Orthodox priests to the
battlefield, according to Church representatives
Russian troops are fighting
Since April 2023, this role has been held by St
Petersburg Archpriest Dmitry Vasilenkov, who has made multiple trips to occupied Donetsk since 2014.Archpriest Dmitry Vasilenkov.Dmitry
Last year, it introduced a special course for military chaplains
This year, the Moscow Patriarchate and the Defense Ministry started developing a federal law defining the legal status of military
clergy.Speaking before the lower-house State Duma in January, Vasilenkov claimed that military chaplains had successfully convinced 700
normal state, a person cannot simply go and kill another person
If, for our grandparents, war was a horror they never wanted to recall, now, within this rhetoric, war is seen as the ultimate purpose of
Chuvashia led a master class for schoolchildren on making trench candles
priests led "lessons in courage," patriotic sessions designed to instill respect for the military in children, ahead of Defender of the
23.In the Rostov region, first-grade students were taken to a local church, where a priest blessed amulets for soldiers
And in Khabarovsk, high school students sent greetings to Russian soldiers from St
their message, the students wanted to show that those waiting for our defenders on the home front pray to God to keep them safe and
And we see that these people lived with dignity, were loyal to their Motherland, and so we hope with faith that they have found their place
together, regardless of its religious affiliations
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin
Sergei Vlasov / patriarchia.ruThe Defense Ministry marked the holiday by sharing messages from religious leaders across faiths, including
Orthodox priests, an Islamic Hazrat and a Buddhist lama
The three-story complex features sports halls, a conference room and a chapel dedicated to the ascetic Saint Varlaam of Keret that houses a
A display will feature patches worn by soldiers in Ukraine, adorned with images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint George the Victorious,
