An Irish Missionary in Russia

08/10/2021 29 min Temporada 5 Episodio 11
An Irish Missionary in Russia

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Fr. Michael Screene was appointed to Russia in 1995.  These were pioneering days for the Sacred Heart Missionaries.His first assignment was to Moscow to learn the language and in 1996 he was sent to the Caucasus to work in the three republics there.In this podcast he describes in detail the aftermath of the Chechen War , the people and their memories of how they survived during the time of the Iron Curtain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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