The Power of Memory: Chernobyl Thirty Years Later

By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
April 26, 2016

Thirty years ago, in the early morning of April 26, 1986, even as the Orthodox Church was about to embark on its holiest of weeks leading to the joy of Easter, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, creating the worst nuclear disaster that the world had seen up to that time.