ROC ordered the churches of Moscow to hold services without the parishioners

the First vicar of the Patriarch of all Russia the Metropolitan of the resurrection Dionysius sent to the clergy of Moscow and Moscow region the letter in which has ordered to fulfill the requirement of the main state sanitary doctor of Moscow Elena Andreeva temporarily suspend from 13 to 19 April, the citizens visiting the territories and areas under the control of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Thus, the letter, now it is necessary to conduct services only with the involvement of the clergy of the temple, as well as employees and volunteers, whose presence is necessary. Believers should be inform about the impossibility of participation in religious services and “to comfort them with a fatherly word.” This assumes that such a regime may be extended.

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