Olga Rozhneva
At one time, the small town where Fr. Boris served in the Church of All Saints began to be overcome by Jehovah’s Witnesses and visiting missionaries.
Patriarch Daniel has addressed the faithful in a video message stressing that “the state of pandemic calls us to transform suffering into hope and isolation into a desire for more communion among people.”
Beginning on Monday, May 4th, health care workers, EMT personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers exposed to the COVID-19 virus can access the Retreat Center facilities for the required 14-day quarantine period free of charge.
The Romanian Patriarchate’s Spokesperson Vasile Banescu said that the return to a normal social life also implies to allow people ‘to exercise their fundamental right to public religious life, that is, inside the places of worship.’
Archpriest Vladimir Puchkov
It’s already a month or more that we’ve been at home twenty-four hours a day, together with our family members. The lack of communication was suddenly replaced with an abundance. And it turns out it’s not so easy to spend absolutely all your time with your loved ones.