Just months into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, two Ukrainian soldiers were gravely injured while attempting to liberate a village from Russian occupation. In desperate need of help, they were taken in by guardian "grandmothers" who protected and treated them as best they could before they died.
A Ukrainian Church -- that currently doesn’t even exist -- is about to change the Orthodox world. A higher authority in Constantinople is considering granting it independence. This move is angering the Russian Orthodox Church, which is threatening to break ties with the other churches.