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Newly-glorified St. Sebastian was celebrated in Jackson November 28-30 beginning with the return of his relics from Los Angeles.
Unidentified malefactors hacked into the website of St. Thomas Church in Kantemirovskaya in Moscow, where renowned priest and missionary Daniel Sysoyev worked and was killed.
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The travels started on May 27 in Tula and were resumed on December 1 in Kaliningrad. During this time the reliquary was taken to cities of central Russia, the Volga Region, Kuban, Siberia and the Far East and to regional centers of Byelorussia, totaling eighty cities in all. According to estimates of the organizers, about one million icons were given with Patriarch Kirill's blessing to believers who came to venerate the relics.
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More than 10,000 people came to pay last respects to Oleg Peshkov on Wednesday, pilot of the Russian Su-24 bomber downed in Syria by Turkey’s air force on November 24.
On Tuesday, December 1, the "National Day of Romania," a Te Deum service was celebrated in the Patriarchal Cathedral of Bucharest, according to Church tradition and the decision of the Holy Synod.