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Rose Marie Berger When the front desk clerk at the Ibis hotel in downtown Kyiv heard a large travel party entering the lobby, she glanced up in surprise. It was 20 minutes before the 11 p.m. military curfew. Our delegation of 17 international religious leaders had made hotel reservations in the war zone a few days in advance, but few—including the hotel clerk—thought we would make it over the border from Warsaw, Poland, to Kyiv, Ukraine, a city that six weeks earlier was surrounded by Russian military forces. I smiled at the clerk. American soul singer Sam Cooke’s sweet tenor filled the lobby while we sorted bags and room keys. I was born by the river in a little tent After a 14-hour bus ride on a recently demined highway, here we were. [...] When our delegation arrived in May, we were the first to answer the mayor’s invitation [to religious leaders to come to Kyiv to show their solidarity with the Ukrainian people]. Our group of peace pilgrims from Italy, the U.K., Poland, and the United States included high-ranking clerics from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions as well as leaders from faith-based civil society organizations such as Operazione Colomba, the nonviolent peace corps of the Pope John XXIII Community in Italy.
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