CHURCHES in eastern Ukraine held a joint service this week to mourn the deaths of four Christians who were kidnapped in June.
The Senior Bishop of the All-Ukrainian Union of Evangelical Christian Churches, the Rt Revd Mikhajlo Panochko, said that pro-Russian militia stormed the Church of the Transfiguration after the Pentecost service in June, capturing two deacons, Volodymyr Velichko and Victor Bradarskoho, as well as Reuben and Albert Pavenko - two adult children of the church's pastor, the Revd Alexander Pavenko. The militia had attempted to capture him, but he managed to escape with his younger children.
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