Divine Dispatch 📫: 3 - 9 January, 2025

Patriarch Kirill blesses crosses for Russian military in Ukraine ● Albanian Primate is in critical condition ● Wounded Ukrainian soldiers sent to Mount Athos, and so much more.

Vladimir Putin attends the Divine Liturgy on Christmas day, has asked Patriarch Kirill to bless crosses and icons for the Russian military. Source: Sergey Vlasov/Russian Orthodox Church Press Service

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