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St. Olga's Convent: dependencies suffering from combat operations as before

Lugansk (Luhansk), September 3, 2014

The territories of the dependencies of the Convent of St. Olga are suffering from the combat operations, as before, reports the convent’s website.

In Novoannovka village, buildings adjacent to the church were damaged from shrapnel following the explosions of artillery shells. A monastery worker, Vyacheslav, suffered a slight hand injury.

Among the convent’s clergy and sisters nobody was injured. All of them are alive.

It was also reported that Sunday services had been celebrated in the city.

The Sunday festal services were celebrated at the St. Panteleimon’s Church of Lugansk, the service there was headed by Rector, Archpriest Andrei Dubina, and at the Church of Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Shchetovo village, headed by Priest Dmitry Kuznetsov.

9/7/2014

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