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Ukraine: 22 Years Since Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
By Ken Horn | April 26, 2008
Evangelical Theological Seminary in Kiev, Ukraine
The AP reported today:
Dozens of mourners gathered in the Ukrainian capital on Saturday to mark 22 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Holding candles and portraits of relatives, the mourners laid flowers at a memorial to victims of the accident.
Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl, in what is now northern Ukraine, exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing radiation over a large swath of the former Soviet Union and much of northern Europe in the world’s worst nuclear accident. An area roughly half the size of Italy was contaminated, forcing the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people.
President Viktor Yushchenko and other top officials prayed and lit candles before dawn Saturday to mark the precise time the reactor exploded.
(Read the full story.)
I was in the Soviet Union in 1986 just 2 months after Chernobyl and it was impacting lives significantly, especially those who were sent to be a part of the cleanup. Back then there were no public prayers. The spiritual breakthrough there since the fall of the Soviet Union has been amazing.
I was in Ukraine in 2006 to report what God was doing there. Read my article “Ukraine: The Bible belt of the CIS” for an encouraging report.
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