Missile Hits Church During Service in the Gorlovka Diocese : Casualties are Reported
The shell attack occurred during the Saturday night Vigil.
PRAVMIR. On August 23, during a shell attack, a missile hit the church in honor of St. John of Kronstadt in the city of Kirovskoe. Three people were killed.
The church has been completely destroyed, the press service of the Gorlovka and Slaviansk Diocese has reported. Those wounded were taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
According to the rector, Archpriest George Tsyganov, the shelling occurred during the Saturday night Vigil, at about 4:30 PM. The Great Doxology was being chanted when a projectile hit the church’s roof in the very center and brought down the ceiling on the people praying. The woman who sold candles, Olga Radchenko, as well as the parishioners Zinaida Meluga and Viktor Chernyshev, died on the spot. With injuries of varying severity were hospitalized the second priest, Archpriest Sergey Piven, his wife Lyudmila, and the parishioners Tatiana, Nadezhda, Lyubov and one other Lyubov.
During the same bombardment a projectile hit the hospital, also resulting in two deaths and serious injuries.
Archbishop Mitrophan of Gorlovka and Slaviansk expressed his deepest condolences and prayerful support to the church community and families of the dead and injured, asking that all Orthodox Christians pray for the repose of the dead, the recovery of the wounded, a swift end to the war, and restored peace on Ukrainian lands.
Archbishop Mitrophan is a good man, as his homily a few days earlier on the Feast of the Transfiguration shows. But the request attributed to him demonstrates what is wrong with almost everyone in Ukraine: he requests the prayers of only Orthodox Christians. One would hope this is a misrepresentation and that he had asked for the prayers of ALL Christians. Every article on every Christian church in Ukraine shows an appalling lack of ecumenism that lies at the very root of the conflict there and definitely impedes its resolution. Wake up Christians! We have to love each other, even if we can’t be in complete communion!
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