 
                            
                    “Prayer for Victory” as a Symptom of the Degradation of the ROC
        September 25, 2022, Patriarch Kirill (Vladimir Gundyaev) introduced a new prayer for mandatory daily reading in all churches of the Russian Orthodox Church — “Prayer for Holy Rus’” 1. This text, which quickly gained the unofficial name “prayer for victory,” became not    
        
    
        
     
            
 
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                            