{"id":35854,"date":"2020-09-23T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=35854"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:14:10","slug":"ukraine-russia-covid-19-ecumenism-and-rehabilitating-drug-addicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2020\/09\/23\/ukraine-russia-covid-19-ecumenism-and-rehabilitating-drug-addicts\/","title":{"rendered":"UKRAINE &#038; RUSSIA: COVID-19, ecumenism and rehabilitating drug addicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"primary\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has provided PPE for the priests as well as 92 seminarians and around 1,000 members of Ukraine\u2019s religious communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Father Grzegorz, a Polish priest from Lublin who is now based in Lviv, was able to visit COVID-19 patients twice a week thanks to ACN\u2019s help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said: \u201cI visit every room, I bless them and talk to them and try to bring good news. I speak of God\u2019s love\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe patients have a strong faith. I told them that Jesus Christ is very close to them in their suffering, for he too suffered some of the same symptoms as those fighting this disease, since he too struggled to breathe\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In nearby Russia, ACN is helping a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts in Sapernoe, led by Father Sergij Belkov, a Russian Orthodox priest who has run the centre since 1996.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The centre has rehabilitated hundreds of young men, with a maximum of 60 accommodated at one time, and has a sister centre in Torfyanoye that helps female addicts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to ACN, Father Belkov said: \u201cThank you to the benefactors of ACN for giving pastoral and practical help\u2026We pray every day for the benefactors \u2013 that is a rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The parish priest of St Adalbert\u2019s parish, in Russia\u2019s Kaliningrad region, Father Jerzy Steckiewicz, is building a centre for families in crisis, parishioners and visiting pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Father Steckiewicz, an advocate of ecumenism, is planning joint family events for Catholics and Orthodox Christians, and has worked on ACN\u2019s previous ecumenical working group conferences and knows the local Russian Orthodox Metropolitan (Archbishop).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also supported by ACN were priests in the Diocese of Irkutsk \u2013 the largest in the world at 10 million square kilometres \u2013 who received help for visits to far-flung parishioners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/donate\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35565 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-580x85.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Support-button.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has provided PPE for the priests as well as 92 seminarians and around 1,000 members of Ukraine\u2019s religious communities. 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