On June 23, 2024, a rocket attack hit Sevastopol. According to the city's governor, 151 people were injured and four people were killed. There are 82 people in hospitals. Priests and sisters of mercy will visit all the victims. The Church is holding requiem services for the dead.
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Condolences to the families of the victims and the injured were expressed by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. I pray to the All-Merciful God for the repose of the souls of the murdered, the speedy healing of the wounded and consolation for the grieving, — noted in the message of the Primate of the Church. — I urge the clergy of the Simferopol Diocese to provide the necessary pastoral support to those affected by the atrocity.
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With the blessing of Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea on June 24, prayers are being offered in all churches of the diocese for the healing of the injured and for the repose of the dead. Since June 23, priests have been on duty in two hospitals in Sevastopol, where the victims were taken.
«The injured are in two Sevastopol emergency hospitals. At the injured in one hospital two priests are already on duty, in the second — one. From tomorrow in all churches The Crimean Metropolitan Church will hold memorial services and read prayers for the healing of the sick. Temples at hospitals with the injured will be open until late evening», — the head of the special humanitarian center of the Crimean Metropolis Archpriest Demetrius Krotkov reported the day before.
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Priests and sisters of mercy in Moscow hospitals are also ready to visit the victims.
The victims are also ready to be visited by priests and sisters of mercy in Moscow hospitals.
The hotline of the Synodal Department for Charity — 8-800-70-70-222 (the call is free, the line works around the clock).
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