‘This awful war’: Ukrainians find reprieve far from home at Edmonton church
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Zubritsky said some who attend his weekly church service have been losing hope, and they don't want to hear him talk about what's happening in their homeland.
Archpriest Cornell Zubritsky sometimes hears the loud wailing of air raids thousands of kilometres away in Ukraine.
The sirens screech from the cellphones of congregants at the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Edmonton.
“A lot of them have the air raid siren app on their phones here in Canada, and it will go off. They do that so that if it’s their city, they get on the phone immediately to see if their relatives are OK,” Zubritsky said in a recent interview.
“For them, this is real. And then it makes it real for me because they’re connected. They are fighting the war every day.”
Zubritsky said most of his 150-person congregation are immigrants from Ukraine. The church’s membership declined during the COVID-19 pandemic but has grown again with families from Ukraine.
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