Maxim Kostenko
However, not all welcome this prayer for peace. There are certain forces that are willing to exert maximum effort so that the spiritual and peacemaking missions of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church should fail.
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Nikita Filatov, Archpriest Andrei Goryachev
Today, we are talking with Archpriest Andrei Goryachev, rector of this church, who speaks the same language as those who cannot hear and understands perfectly those who cannot speak.
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The Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon was born in the city of Nicomedia into the family of the illustrious pagan Eustorgius, and he was named Pantoleon. His mother St Euboula (March 30) was a Christian. She wanted to raise her son in the Christian Faith, but she died when the future martyr was just a young child. His father sent Pantoleon to a pagan school, after which the young man studied medicine at Nicomedia under the renowned physician Euphrosynus.
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To this day, in the city of Nazareth—one of the last cities in the Holy Land with a sizeable Christian population—there is a church dedicated to the Archangel Gabriel. Inside the church is a well that tradition designates as coming from very spring at which the Annunciation took place.
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As a result of military conflict, the site of the Baptism of Christ, known as Qaser al-Yahud, is heavily mined. It is home to ancient churches and monasteries, which haven’t been safe to visit for nearly fifty years.
