Up on the newly whitened hills of Kyiv’s Pechersk Lavra Monastery, life goes back a century or nine. Bearded, black-frocked men scurry across the grounds, gliding between the dozens of temples and administrative buildings. A skittish visitor stops one of the monks in his tracks, and rolls up his sleeve to reveal an arm covered in crusty lesions. He is shepherded to the monastery’s medical centre.
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Metropolitan Onufriy (C), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy, conducts a prayer for peace in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, the headquarter of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy, in Kyiv, on Oct. 14, 2018.
