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RUSSIAN CHURCH COLLECTED HUMANITARIAN AID TO DONBASS RESIDENTS IN 2015



 

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow

Russian Church collected 500 tons of humanitarian aid for Donbass residents in 2015

Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 16:23

More than 500 tons of the humanitarian aid collected by the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) were delivered to the residents of Donbass in 2015; nearly 100 thousand people in Donbass received food in the social canteens of ROC, reports on Tuesday Synodal Department for Church relations with society and mass media.

Since the end of December, 2014 with blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill the staff of Synodal Department for Charity started regular trips to the Donbass region. According to the Patriarchy, over this time more than 573 tons of humanitarian aid have been transferred there.


‘As of December, 2015, food and hot lunches in the church social canteens were provided to more than 97 thousand people, many of these people were in the extremely difficult financial situation. The Church aid was received by the needy residents of Gorlovka, Donetsk, Lugansk and Severodonetsk dioceses,’ says the text of the press release.

DONi News Agency

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