a tiny chapel in Kramatorsk hosts Orthodox Passover prayers

It’s a tiny chapel in Kramatorsk, in the heart of a Ukrainian garden. A setting to welcome the prayers of the Orthodox Easter, in the warm arms of Father Vitaly. They will only be a handful of neighbors. “I only invited a few people, because if there are many of us, they can bombard us and it would be a massacre”, says Father Vitaly Limishenko. Sing the resurrection, the one that gives hope, that of the victory of life over death.

Everyone, in this war, has come with his pain. A man wants to talk to the father about the drama of his young neighbors. “This is the grave of the parents and their 4-year-old child. They were killed at a roadblock”he says. “The parents were like my children, and it was I who buried their son”, he said. The priest listens, sympathizes, and comforts, in a place where icons watch over the faithful. These devotees want to believe that prayers help peace. In any case, they say, on this Holy Day, they do not forgive their Russian attackers.