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What Easter for the Orthodox of Ukraine?

Believers attend the Orthodox Easter service outside the Cathedral of the Holy Transfiguration in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, Ukraine, April 18, 2020. (Illustrative image) © Alexander Ermoshenko/REUTERS

By: Genevieve Delrue

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World Religions - Sunday, April 24, 2022 - 11:10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Paris time

In a Ukraine at war, while part of the Orthodox faithful depends on the Moscow Patriarchate which supports Vladimir Putin, while the other has rallied to the Church which gained independence in 2019, how to celebrate this Orthodox Easter and what meaning should be given to the Christian feast of the resurrection of Christ in this climate of death and destruction?

In this online broadcast from Kiev, we will hear from the philosopher

, founder and director of the Franco-Ukrainian Laboratory at the University of Kiev. 

Baptized as an adult, he sees in this Easter week a moment of truth and what could have been the occasion for a truce as was the case during the 1914-1918 War.

Orthodox historian

, director of research at the Collège des Bernardins, talks about Good Friday for Ukrainians. 

For his part, 

director of the Oeuvre d'Orient, expects "a humanist and pacifist outburst" from the Russian Orthodox Church, which has so far shown no compassion. 

has set up an emergency fund for Greek Catholic parishes in western Ukraine and border areas to welcome refugees.

We will hear from

a volunteer from l'Oeuvre d'Orient, back from an assessment mission. 

When

answers by videoconference questions from the world's underprivileged about his life, his temperament, his faults, his doubts, his anxieties but also about money, injustice, evil, etc., it gives almost nine hours of interviews and a book: “

General Delegate of

, who is at the origin of this initiative, returns to this quirky and caustic dialogue between the pope and the poor of the planet.

The Association Lazare sets up shared flats in its houses between the homeless and young working people.  

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