The vicar of St Andrews Moscow returns to a village church in England
from Religion Media Centre:
The Rev Malcolm Rogers and his wife Alison have returned to the UK after ten years at St Andrew’s Church in Moscow, close to the Kremlin. Now serving in a village church, they have been speaking to reporter Bob Walker for the Heart and Soul programme on BBC Radio 4.
They were in Russia during the Ukraine war and the Salisbury poisonings, but now they are back in the UK, they can speak more freely. Mr Rogers said he was against sanctions taken out against Patriarch Kirill, who supported the war, as this was interpreted as an attack on the Orthodox church. He believes “there is no justification for what is clearly an illegal war, which has caused devastation in Ukraine and has also caused devastation to so many Russian people”.
He has spoken warmly of the kindness of the people of Moscow, and looks back fondly on his congregation which was a curious mix, with MI5 and the FBI officers in the pews, alongside FSB minders.
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