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Chaplains of Volyn bless icons by ATO soldiers

07.03.2019, 10:08

In the Rivne Regional Hospital of War Veterans, hosting the Center for Rehabilitation and Treatment, Mykhailo Buchak, Chief Military Chaplain of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Archpriest Mykhailo Buchak, along with Archpriests Ivan Hureev, Vitaliy Antonyuk and Yevheniy Rud blessed the icons by soldiers and their mothers during rehabilitation.

In the Rivne Regional Hospital of War Veterans, hosting the Center for Rehabilitation and Treatment, Mykhailo Buchak, Chief Military Chaplain of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Archpriest Mykhailo Buchak, along with Archpriests Ivan Hureev, Vitaliy Antonyuk and Yevheniy Rud blessed the icons by soldiers and their mothers during rehabilitation.

This is reported by Volyn Post.

The clergy also celebrated a prayer service for the health of the soldiers, their families and the medical staff that supervises them. Chaplains served a burial service (litia) for the fallen brothers and sisters.

"As Fr Mykhailo said, two wheelchairs were brought for the fighters, which were provided by the rector of the Lutsk parish of the Reverend Job of Pochayiv, priest Oleksandr Vronsky, and some sweets,” the statement reads.

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