How Moscow patriarch transformed love thy neighbour into kill thy neighbour
Scherba learned to pray at 10 in a tiny Kyiv apartment while the Soviet Union tolerated Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.
In a tiny one-room gostinka apartment on the outskirts of Kyiv where we lived, there was no way around but to hear my mom begin and end her days with these mysterious words: “Our Heavenly Father…” So, when she told me that I was big enough now and it was time for me to learn how to pray, it turned out that, to her surprise, I already knew all of my mom’s prayers.
Ukraine went independent – and so did (not without drama, of course) its church.
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