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Kyiv parish ravaged by occupation makes painful split from Moscow

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Irpin, UkraineReuters For years a vocal minority at Saint Nicholas’ parish in the middle-class Kyiv commuter town of Irpin resisted calls to split from their spiritual fathers in Moscow.  A millennium of sacred ties between Russia and Ukraine, they argued, should be above politics.  But after three weeks of Russian military occupation that left the […]