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“Easter is Christ’s defeat of death; it brings us closer to God”

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“The resurrection of Christ is the central event in his earthly life, and the establishment of the Church is connected with this event,” says Sergey Chapnin, executive editor of the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate.

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