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Worshipers, including President Vladimir Putin, packed into Moscow’s sprawling Christ the Savior Cathedral for Easter services led by Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill, a supporter of Russia’s military actions in Ukraine
MOSCOW — Worshipers, including President Vladimir Putin, thronged Moscow’s massive Cathedral of Christ the Savior for Easter services led by Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill, a supporter of Russia’s military actions in Ukraine.
Services began late on Saturday and were to stretch long into Sunday, as phalanxes of white-robed clerics moved through the cathedral waving censers and a choir sang and chanted.
Most Western churches celebrated Easter on April 9, but the Russian Orthodox Church follows a different calendar.
In a video message broadcast on state television before the start of the service, Kirill bemoaned the grave events taking place in our Russian historic land, echoing the claim by Putin and other Russian officials that an independent Ukraine is essentially a fantasy.
Cyril called for prayers so that peace and a common good life, fraternal relations will reunite our peoples, who were once the one people of united Russia.
Putin appeared among the standing worshipers, holding a thin red candle.
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