Priest Valery Dukhanin
This is what Laurentian Chronicle (Codex) says: “A most curious wonder has manifested itself in Polotsk: The heavy stamping of feet was heard at night, something was moaning in the streets, demons that looked like people were rushing about. Whoever came out to see what's going on would get imperceptibly stricken with the plague by the demons, and would die from this, so no one ventured out of their dwellings.”
The appeal, addressed to the President, head of Parliament, and Prime Minister, emphasizes that, according to the Moldovan constitution, any vaccine should be offered on a voluntary basis, despite talk from politicians and businessmen around the world about making a coronavirus vaccine mandatory.
Closed to pilgrims and parishioners earlier this month, St. Elisabeth’s Convent in Minsk opened its gates again today with the lifting of the quarantine regime by the state Sanitary Service, as most of the nuns who became ill have fully recovered.
Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, the Chairman of the Russian Church’s Patriarchal Commission for Family and Protection of Motherhood and Childhood, has recovered from the coronavirus and returning to his ministry.
His Eminence Archbishop Pimen of Suceava and Rădăuți reposed in the Lord today early in the morning, having suffered pulmonary complications from the coronavirus.