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The Church is an Australian alternative rock band originally from Canberra which currently consists of Steve Kilbey, Ian Haug, Tim Powles and Peter Koppes.

The band initially formed in 1980 when the members were all together in Sydney. The Church has kept rock at the forefront of their sound, yet it has changed quite noticeably from the beginnings of their career when they were often classed as new wave and psychedelic. It is now likened more to progressive, with emphasis on the long instrumental and complexity of the guitar riffs.

The band enjoyed their first hit in 1981 when 'The Unguarded Moment' lifted from the debut 'Of Skins and Heart' peaked at #22 on the Australian chart. They achieved their peak position on both the album and singles chart upon the release of 'Starfish' in 1988. This album reached #11 in Australia and #42 in the US. The sales were aided by the band's only international hit single, 'Under The Milky Way' which reached #24 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

This remains their commercial height as throughout the rest of their career they have not been able to replicate the success of 'Starfish'. Despite several line up changes, the band held steady and they were rewarded in 2010 as they were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in Sydney. Their latest album 'Further/Deeper' was released in October 2014.

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There's hardly any other band out there that can put on a show quite as transcendent as The Church. The Australian quartet adeptly layers their music to create an epic, surreal sound. The Church’s live performances are very well executed and they create an atmospheric quality that immediately captivates the audience. Songs like “Under The Milky Way” have the kind of beauty and layers that conjure up images and feelings as if you were sitting under the night sky while having an introspective moment. The Church incorporates the clean crisp sound of their 12 string acoustic guitar as a rhythmic backdrop to the shimmering sounds of their electric guitars that are drenched in reverb to create a dreamy mood. Songs like “Aura” show The Church using the deep, warm sounds of the synthesizer to create eerie, mystical sounds that will put the audience in a delightful haze.

The light show at The Church’s concert is also very atmospheric and goes very well with the music. There is usually a layer of fog covering the stage, and the subtle, ambient lights illuminate the stage. They also incorporate psychedelic lighting patterns into their show as well to help further create an atmospheric vibe. Steve Kilbey’s lyrics also create a kind of atmosphere to the performance. His lyrics are often surreal and touch on topics dealing with dreams, myths, and visions.

The Church is bound to put on a memorable performance whenever they walk on stage. Their most recent performances have shown them playing through a wide variety of songs from their catalog as well as breaking their concert into two long sets. If The Church ever comes through town, you should not hesitate to let their live performance sweep you off your feet with their grand atmospheric sound that is so uplifting.

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The show was very intimate. My wife and I loved the performance. We were able to get right up close to the stage and enjoy the experience. The crowd was also very friendly and genuine. Great experience! My only complaint was that the show started too late. My wife and I had to leave at midnight and the concert was still going. I think an 8PM start time for The Church would have been better. Helio Sequence could have opened at 7PM instead of 8PM. Of course, the Fonda Theater would have to open earlier as well; Just something to consider for future shows. All the fans I spoke to said agreed that the concert started too late.

The Church- Ardmore Music Hall Ardmore , Pa. I was one of the lucky to purchase a VIP ticket. I was able to get in early and see the sound check and chat with the band. The band memnbers were really good about talking to everyone. Signed my poster and took pictures with each member. The show itself was worth the extra money. They played many songs and of course , played the favorites. Band sounded tight and together. loads of fun and a few high jinx of stage towards the end that made it very entertaining. a show I would recommand.

Crowd were hyped but took awhile to get into the groove. Band played well and sound was good but spent too long adding instrumental fillers in songs. Very little banter from Mr Kilby who after all these years does not appear comfortable on stage. Triffid was packed which was uncomfortable and forget getting a drink unless you went outside and lost your half square meter of space. Glad we saw them but don't think we will again.

far out, solid, & right on!

absolutely magnificent show. the set list was amazing. 2 songs i never thought i would have the pleasure of hearing in person (Fly & Constant In Opal). Opened with Aura, yes, Aura. Unbelievable.

Jeffrey Cain was guest appearing and he was crushing with the rest of them.

i'm done babbling....almost. Helio Sequence opened and they were great too.

It seems that the current Church tour is mainly to their fans who know all their new songs from the 2000 and up.

I'm the Church fan from their old time, unfortunately I knew only 3-4 songs.

However, the church as a band gave a great show filled with energy and passion.

Would definitely go to listen to their newer material of which I was exposed to in the recent show.

The show at Revolution Hall in Portland was sublime. The Church never disappoint live and this was a great mix of older material and new songs. I attended the meet and greet prior to the show and the guys are all charming and appreciative. Bonus for the fans to know they're humble and grateful after all these years.

Excellent experience! The Church are masters of their craft. They are consistent in creating great albums and entertaining tours. I would highly recommend seeing them. Steve Kilbey, Peter Kopps, Timothy Powles, and Ian Haug will rock your world.

Just about one of the greatest shows; love the "idea" of 2 sets with one being a complete album (with the "rare B-side). PLEASE come back, and keep making albums of psychedelic jangle-y guitar ROCK!

The Church was amazing! My mother let me get tickets to see them for my 18th birthday, I was literally the youngest person there. Besides the AC not working it was wonderful and I'm so glad I went.

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The Holy See has asked me to conduct a tour with the arm of Saint Jude the Apostle, known the world over as the Apostle of the Impossible, until May 2024.

That tour has its own web page and schedule: www.ApostleOfTheImpossible.com .  Its scheduling is ongoing, with new locations being added weekly.  Visit the page frequently for the most up-to-date stops.

Regular Treasures of the Church expositions will be ON HOLD until the Saint Jude tour is complete.

The video below will give you more information.

 Please come out and venerate the sacred remains of the Jesus’ first cousin and one of His closest collaborators.

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NOTICE OF A SPECIAL PODCAST BY FR. CARLOS MARTINS

After several years of development, I am pleased to announce the release of “The Exorcist Files,” an audio docu-drama podcast and collection of teachings based on my experiences as an exorcist. The series was developed with the Vatican and iHeartMedia, the largest publisher of podcasts in the world. You can now subscribe using the links on the official website www.exorcistfiles.tv or wherever you get your podcasts.

Due to the ever-increasing de-Christianization of western society, the rise in occult practices (even among Christians), and the poor state of Christian religious formation, the need for deliverance and exorcism ministry has increased dramatically. Since I have worked closely with the Vatican and served as an exorcist in North America and Europe, the Holy See asked me to undertake a catechesis about the Church’s teaching regarding the demonic, spiritual warfare, and exorcism.

Each episode is based on one of my exorcism case files which I use to illustrate various topics, such as how one becomes possessed, why demons desire to inhabit people and things, how an afflicted person is freed, and how to protect oneself against evil. A unique feature of this show is that all episodes feature dramatic re-enactments, portrayed by professional voice actors, along with my narration of relevant teaching and information.

Why would I include re-enactments and not simply provide lectures on each topic? Three reasons. One, the Church puts out teaching constantly, and very few chime in. Most people regard lectures—especially lectures on religious topics—as boring. As we are quickly losing the Christian culture, utilizing a different approach has become necessary. Two, I believe dramatizations of actual events give the listener a better appreciation of the adversarial nature of evil and what can happen when it makes its way into our lives. It also makes the need for personal conversion much more convincing. Three, young persons aged eighteen to twenty-nine are increasingly leaving organized religion. A recent Pew survey found that the number of religiously unaffiliated persons in this demographic increased from 15 percent to almost 20 percent in just five years. However, another survey showed that a whopping 63 percent of the same demographic believe that people can become possessed by demons, a figure higher than any other group. Evidently, in the age group most disinterested in religion, something is occurring in their lives that makes them conclude demons are real. I feel it necessary to reach out to this age group—using podcasts, a medium with which they are familiar—to aid them in interpreting their experiences in a healthy manner and to direct them to the One that has vanquished evil.

At www.exorcistfiles.tv you can use the relevant links (Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc.) to download the episodes when they are released beginning January 25, 2023, the Solemnity of the Conversion of St. Paul. You can also sign up at the bottom of that page to be notified when each podcast is released. I highly encourage everyone to sign up with their email, as those who do so will be the first to be notified of another forthcoming special release on the same topic .

Please note that the series is intended for an adult audience.

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• Jun 18 2024 Keswick Theatre Glenside, PA, USA  –  Find tickets Doors 6:00 PM  –  Start time: 7:51 PM (Est.) Tickets 6:00 PM 7:51 PM Estimated
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• Jun 29 2024 Summerfest 2024 Milwaukee, WI, USA Add time  –  Scheduled: 10:15 PM Add time Add times 10:15 PM
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The Church  and  The Afghan Whigs  co-headline tour of North America this summer.   

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The Church Announces Spring 2023 U.S. Tour Dates

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The Church announces second leg of U.S. tour in support of “The Hypnogogue”

The Church will return to the United States this fall for a second round of dates in support of the band’s 26th studio album  The Hypnogogue — a run of 25 shows that opens in late September and continues through early November.

The band, which played 20 dates in the U.S. in March and April , opens the newly announced shows Sept. 28 in Seattle and continues through a pair of concerts in Evanston, Illinois, on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.

Head over to thechurchband.net for full ticket information.

The new album is The Church’s first since the 2020 departure of founding guitarist Peter Koppes , leaving singer-bassist Steve Kilbey as the only original member of the band. He’s joined by longtime Church drummer Tim Powles, guitarists Ian Haug and Ashley Naylor, and multi-instrumentalist Jeffrey Cain.

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The Church U.S. tour dates 2023

Sept. 28: Seattle, WA — Neptune Theater Oct. 2: Ventura, CA — Ventura Music Hall Oct. 4: Pomona, CA — The Glass House Oct. 5: Las Vegas, NV — Brooklyn Bowl Oct. 6: Chandler, AZ — The Showroom at Wild Horse Pass Oct. 7: Santa Fe, NM — The Lesnic Oct. 9: Omaha, NE — The Waiting Room Oct. 11: Ferndale, MI — The Magic Bag Oct. 12: State College, PA — State Theater Oct. 13: Covington, KY — Madison Theatre Oct. 14: Atlanta, GA — Variety Playhouse Oct. 15: Birmingham, AL — Saturn Oct. 17: Ponte Vedra, FL — Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Oct. 18: Orlando, FL — The Abbey Oct. 19: Clearwater, FL — Capitol Theatre Oct. 20: Fort Lauderdale, FL — Culture Room Oct. 21: Fort Lauderdale, FL — Culture Room Oct. 23: Pensacola, FL — Vinyl Music Room Oct. 24: New Orleans, LA — House of Blues Oct. 26: Austin, TX — Levitation Festival Oct. 27: Houston, TX — Heights Theater Oct. 28: Dallas, TX — Kessler Theater Oct. 29: Oklahoma City, OK — Tower Theater Oct. 31: Evanston, IL — SPACE Nov. 1: Evanston, IL — SPACE

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Cannot believe how good their new album is. I’ve bought everything The Church have done since 1980 and incredibly, The Hypnogogue is one of their very best. I can’t think of another band on the planet where album number 26 sits so comfortably alongside their best releases.

Their new album is fantastic!!

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ERIC CHURCH IN THE ROUND: THE GATHER AGAIN TOUR

55 City North American Arena Tour Kicks Off This Fall, Runs Through Madison Square Garden Finale in Spring 2022

Tickets to U.S. Dates On Sale Friday, May 7 at 10 a.m. Local Time

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year and current ACM Entertainer of the Year nominee Eric Church has his sights set on a return to the road with this morning’s announcement of a full arena tour. As first shared with the Church Choir and by Billboard magazine earlier today, The Gather Again Tour will kick off this fall and visit 55 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, culminating at Madison Square Garden in the spring of 2022.

Making the most of the long-awaited opportunity to “gather again,” for the first time in his career Church will adopt an in-the-round set up, with the stage at the center of each arena floor in order to accommodate as many fans as possible. Tickets to all U.S. dates go on sale to the general public Friday, May 7 at 10 a.m. local time at www.EricChurch.com . Church Choir members may access tickets early via pre-sale on Tuesday, May 4 at 10 a.m. local time. On sale information for the Canadian dates will be announced soon.

Church, praised by Rolling Stone in the lead review of the April 2021 print issue for how he “has maneuvered the Nashville system, remaining dedicated to the power of down-the-center hitmaking even as he’s helped expand the parameters of the genre,” has passionately taken a leadership role in the industry’s return to touring. 

“It became very clear to me that the only way to really get back to normal is through vaccinations. You’ve got to get needles in arms,” he shared with Billboard in the April 3 cover story depicting the superstar getting his own second dose of the vaccine after consulting with epidemiologists and industry experts.

“I just want to play shows,” he continued. “Politics’ job is to divide – that’s how you win elections. Those things that unite us are music and sports. The times when, whether you’re a Democrat or Republican or whatever, you throw your arm around the person next to you. We need that. I need that.”

Additionally, Church will appear in an upcoming PSA promoting vaccine education, produced by ACM Lifting Lives, The Ad Council and COVID Collaborative and set to premiere during the ACM Awards broadcast on Sunday, April 18, where Church will also perform a song off his forthcoming Heart & Soul triple album project.

The trio is set for release in the coming weeks, with Heart available everywhere Friday, April 16, Soul available everywhere Friday, April 23, and the middle album, & , available exclusively to the Church Choir on Tuesday, April 20.

For the latest information and to learn how to join the Church Choir, visit www.EricChurch.com and follow on  Facebook  and  Twitter  @ericchurch and  Instagram @ericchurchmusic.

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Sept. 17, 2021           Rupp Arena                               Lexington, Ky.

Sept. 18, 2021           Nationwide Arena                       Columbus, Ohio

Sept. 24, 2021           Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse        Cleveland, Ohio

Sept. 25, 2021           KeyBank Center                         Buffalo, N.Y.

Oct. 1, 2021              Alerus Center                             Grand Forks, N.D.

Oct. 2, 2021              Bell MTS Place                           Winnipeg, Manitoba

Oct. 8, 2021              PPG Paints Arena                        Pittsburgh, Pa.

Oct. 9, 2021              Wells Fargo Center                     Philadelphia, Pa.

Oct. 15, 2021             Ball Arena                                 Denver, Colo.

Oct. 22, 2021             Scotiabank Saddledome              Calgary, Alberta

Oct. 23, 2021             SaskTel Centre                           Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Oct. 29, 2021             Rogers Arena                             Vancouver, British Columbia

Oct. 30, 2021             Climate Pledge Arena                  Seattle, Wash.

Nov. 12, 2021            Thompson-Boling Arena              Knoxville, Tenn.

Nov. 13, 2021            Ford Center                               Evansville, Ind.

Dec. 3, 2021              SNHU Arena                              Manchester, N.H.

Dec. 4, 2021              UBS Arena                                 Belmont Park, N.Y.

Dec. 10, 2021            The Anthem                               Washington, D.C.

Dec. 11, 2021            The Anthem                               Washington, D.C.

Dec. 17, 2021            Bon Secours Wellness Arena        Greenville, S.C.

Dec. 18, 2021            Greensboro Coliseum                  Greensboro, N.C.

Jan. 7, 2022              Pinnacle Bank Arena                   Lincoln, Neb.

Jan. 8, 2022              Denny Sanford PREMIER Center   Sioux Falls, S.D.

Jan. 14, 2022             Scotiabank Arena                       Toronto, Ontario

Jan. 15, 2022             Canadian Tire Centre                  Ottawa, Ontario

Jan. 21, 2022             Van Andel Arena                        Grand Rapids, Mich.

Jan. 22, 2022             Little Caesars Arena                    Detroit, Mich.

Feb. 4, 2022              KFC Yum! Center                        Louisville, Ky.

Feb. 5, 2022              Bankers Life Fieldhouse               Indianapolis, Ind.

Feb. 11, 2022            CHI Health Center Omaha           Omaha, Neb.

Feb. 12, 2022            Wells Fargo Arena                      Des Moines, Iowa

Feb. 18, 2022            T-Mobile Center                         Kansas City, Mo.

Feb 19, 2022             BOK Center                               Tulsa, Okla.

Feb. 25, 2022            Hampton Coliseum                     Hampton, Va.

Feb. 26, 2022            Spectrum Center                        Charlotte, N.C.

March 4, 2022            Amway Center                           Orlando, Fla.

March 5, 2022            Amalie Arena                             Tampa, Fla.

March 11, 2022          United Center                            Chicago, Ill.

March 12, 2022          Enterprise Center                       St. Louis, Mo.

March 18, 2022          Resch Center                             Green Bay, Wis.

March 19, 2022          Resch Center                             Green Bay, Wis.

March 25, 2022          Legacy Arena at the BJCC            Birmingham, Ala.

March 26, 2022          Simmons Bank Arena                  Little Rock, Ark.

April 1, 2022              Dickies Arena                             Fort Worth, Texas

April 2, 2022              AT&T Center                              San Antonio, Texas

April 8, 2022              Toyota Center                            Houston, Texas

April 9, 2022              Smoothie King Center                 New Orleans, La.

April 15, 2022            Moda Center                              Portland, Ore.

April 16, 2022            Spokane Arena                          Spokane, Wash.

April 29, 2022            ExtraMile Arena                          Boise, Idaho

April 30, 2022            Vivint Arena                               Salt Lake City, Utah

May 6, 2022              Pechanga Arena                         San Diego, Calif.

May 7, 2022              STAPLES Center                         Los Angeles, Calif.

May 11, 2022             Golden 1 Center                         Sacramento, Calif.

May 13, 2022             T-Mobile Arena                           Las Vegas, Nev.

May 14, 2022             Gila River Arena                         Glendale, Ariz.

May 20, 2022             Madison Square Garden              New York, N.Y.

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The tabernacle choir announces rescheduled dates for 2022 tour.

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The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square announced further details about their 2022 tour to seven cities in four Nordic countries and the United Kingdom.  The tour has been postponed twice due to COVID-19 limitations. The rescheduled 2022 tour will now take place over 22 days from Thursday, 16 June to Thursday, 7 July. The tour will visit all the same cities planned for the original tour. The new dates are listed below; concerts begin at 20.00.

• Stockholm, Sweden - date: 18 June 2022 (Saturday)*; Venue: Konserthuset Stockholm
• Helsinki, Finland – date: 21 June 2022 (Tuesday); Venue: (to be announced)
• Copenhagen, Denmark – date: 25 June 2022 (Saturday); Venue: DR Koncerthuset
• Oslo, Norway - date: 28 June 2022 (Tuesday); Venue: Oslo Spektrum
• Edinburgh, Scotland – date: 1 July 2022 (Friday): Venue: Usher Hall
• Newport, South Wales – date: 4 July 2022 (Monday); Venue: International Convention Centre Wales
• Cardiff, Wales - date: 6 July 2022 (Wednesday); Venue: St. David’s Hall (invitation only)

* Matinee performance at 14.00 as well as evening concert.

“We are delighted that with the significant cooperation of the performance venues and our travel partners we have been able to reschedule this tour for these dates in 2022,” said Choir president Ron Jarrett. “We will still be able to realise the original concept for the tour to visit Wales and other areas with heritage to the Choir whose first members were early converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with musical talents from these locations.”

Prior to the rescheduling of the tour, tickets were on sale in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Edinburgh. For patrons who purchased tickets for these concerts, arrangements have been made to transfer these tickets to the new 2022 concert dates. Each of these venues will be in contact with ticket holders via email about ticket procedures. The emails from Stockholm and Copenhagen will provide refund request information. Edinburgh ticketholders can email [email protected] . to request a refund. Ticket sales are available at Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Edinburgh. Ticket availability at the other tour venues will be announced in the future. See TabChoir.org/tour for further information.

Since its first tour outside of Utah in 1893, the Choir has toured extensively across the United States and in other countries. It has performed in music capitals from Israel and Russia to Japan and Australia. The Choir last toured these four Nordic cities 39 years ago in 1982. It has not visited Wales or Scotland since its first European tour in 1955. A complement of approximately 65 members of the Orchestra has travelled on tour with the Choir since 2005.

The Choir and Orchestra are active recording artists with their own recording label which has released over 90 CDs, DVDs, books, and other products since it was founded in 2003. The Choir’s current CD release, When You Believe: A Night at the Movies , was released in 2020 and is available to purchase, download, and stream at TabChoir.org/shop . The album was number 1 on Billboard ® Magazine’s Classical Crossover list in its first week of release.

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Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra moving forward with 2022 Heritage Tour to Europe

By Jason Swensen

Despite a pair of prior COVID-19-related postponements, the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square is moving forward with its long-anticipated Heritage Tour of several Nordic countries and the United Kingdom.

Dates were announced Friday, June 18, for the 2022 Heritage Tour. The tour will stretch across three weeks — from June 16, 2022, to July 7, 2022 — and include concerts in seven European locales.

Performances and venues include:

• Stockholm, Sweden, June 18, 2022, Konserthuset Stockholm.
• Helsinki, Finland, June 21, 2022, venue to be announced.
• Copenhagen, Denmark, June 25, 2022, DR Koncerthuset.
• Oslo, Norway, June 28, 2022, Oslo Spektrum.
• Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1, 2022, Usher Hall.
• Newport, South Wales, July 4, 2022, International Convention Centre Wales.
• Cardiff, Wales, July 6, 2022, St. David’s Hall (benefit concert, invitation only).

The name of next year’s tour is a nod to the beloved organization’s history, said choir president Ron Jarrett in Friday’s news release . Some of the choir’s earliest members had roots in Wales and other regions of Europe that will be visited in the 2022 tour.

“We stand on the shoulders of these musical pioneers who created a legacy that has influenced the entire world for good. What an honor it will be to share the joy and peace the music of the choir brings in some of the very places where it all began,” said Jarrett.

The Heritage Tour was originally expected to take place in 2020 before being placed on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour was first rescheduled for 2021, before being postponed a second time earlier this year.

Prior to the 2022 rescheduling of the tour, tickets had been on sale in Stockholm, Edinburgh, and Copenhagen. 

For patrons who hold tickets for the 2021 concerts, arrangements have been made to transfer the tickets to the new 2022 concert dates. Each of the venues will be in contact with ticket holders via email about ticket procedures and refund requests, according to the choir’s website.  Edinburgh ticket holders can email [email protected] to request a refund. 

Tickets are available at the Stockholm, Edinburgh and Copenhagen venues. Ticket availability at the other locations will be announced in the future.

The Tabernacle Choir enjoys a rich touring history in Europe after first embarking on a seven-week concert tour of the continent in 1955. Since then, the choir has returned to Europe five times, according to Newsroom , including tours to Western and Central Europe in 1973; Northern Europe in 1982; Eastern Europe in 1991; Western and Southern Europe in 1998; and Central Europe in 2016. 

The choir last toured these four Nordic cities 39 years ago in 1982. It has not visited Wales or Scotland since the first European tour in 1955.

The choir and orchestra last toured in 2018, performing in seven cities in California, Washington and Vancouver, Canada.

Meanwhile, live “ Music & the Spoken Word ” broadcasts and public rehearsals continue to be postponed. However, the “Music & the Spoken Word” program airs and streams each week, thanks to the Choir’s large library of uplifting, encouraging and heartfelt music. 

Each episode is available on YouTube and Facebook for on-demand viewing immediately after the weekly streams. Newly recorded “Music & Spoken Word” messages are included in the previously aired broadcasts each week.

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When country music lovers talk about the greatest groups in the genre, Shenandoah is always at the forefront of any discussion. Fueled by Marty Raybon’s distinctive vocals and the band’s skilled musicianship, Shenandoah became well known for delivering such hits as “Two Dozen Roses”, “Church on Cumberland Road” and “Next to You, Next to Me” as well as such achingly beautiful classics as “I Want to be Loved Like That” and the Grammy winning “Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart” duet with Alison Krauss. Shenandoah has recorded ten studio albums (3 certified gold) and placed 26 singles on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. The boys from Muscle Shoals have left a potent legacy at country radio with over a dozen #1 records.  

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FLUSHING’S GREATEST HITS, PART TWO

Continued from Part One

WITH this page, I am proposing/inaugurating a new Forgotten NY series, Greatest Hits, that will be appearing periodically, much like the series began earlier in 2024,  One and Done,  concerning NYC’s one-block streets; I got through Manhattan in three parts, though the other boroughs will be a bit longer, and for (relative) brevity’s sake, I’m leaving out one-block bits of numbered streets in each borough.

The premise of Greatest Hits is simple. I will take a neighborhood and visit the infrastructural items in each that intrigue me and capture these items with more photographic attention than I have devoted previously, shooting where possible from many different angles and focusing on detail I had not noticed before. While some of the items discussed have been mentioned in Forgotten NY (repeatedly) before, the website is now 25 years old, some are “late to the party.” What I consider a site weakness, and one that has been intractable thus far, is that pages I have written years ago are hard to find unless one gets really specific using the site function. In short that means I’ll be repeating some copy written before, but at the same time providing new comments where appropriate.

Flushing seems a good place to start, as while it’s one of NYC’s most crowded and bustling regions, infused with immigrations from South Asia beginning 40 years ago, it’s a very old town founded in the 1600s and chockfull of historic relics.

When I shot Part One, April 13. 2024, the weather was not optimum for photography, dull and overcast, and I cut things short due to impending showers. Returning to Flushing on May 18th, conditions were much better with mostly sunny with some passing cumulus. I got 113 photos, and my time is limited on weekends now with work I do for Marquis Who’s who and the need to get out and shoot more scenes, so I may have to cut this short and finish in Part Three; we’ll see.

St. George’s

In 1870, Flushing, which was then already over 200 years old, was still a one-horse town and there’s nary a horse to be seen, although you can make out wagon wheel tracks in the dirt road. We’re at what is now the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue — now one of the most insanely crowded crossroads in a city full of them.

The only constant between then and now is the presence of St. George Episcopal Church, founded in 1702. The present church is the third on the site, constructed from 1853-1854.

The third and present church occupies the same site as the original building and was built from 1853-54. It was designed by Frank Wills and Henry Dudley, architects associated with The New York Ecclesiological Society that had an interest in the development of Gothic Architecture as a new style (Neo-Gothic) for American churches. Local craftsmen were engaged and regional materials were used. The building includes walls of randomly laid granite rubble, fine stained glass windows. Above the entrance is a 150-foot tapered stone tower that houses a bell recast at Troy, N.Y., using the 1760 bell’s metal and bearing the inscription, “The gift of John Aspinwall, Gentleman, 1760.”  American Guild of Organists

The steeple seen on the church today is at least the second in the 1854 church’s existence. In September 2010 a derecho, or hurricane-force gust of wind, blew the steeple down to Main Street. Fortunately the funds were found for an exact replica.

St. George has two churchyards in which congregants were laid to rest. One is easily entered via the front gate on Main Street (frankly it’s now a bit overgrown) and the other one is behind a locked gate on 38th Avenue west of Main Street.

Stones in churchyards can be much older than the church building itself, if the church has been rebuilt several times over the years. St. George’s churchyard bears stones with names now found on Queens maps, such as Lawrences, Pecks, and Cornells.

If only St. George Church could talk and tell what it has seen on Main Street over the years. Here’s a look at what faces it on Main Street in 2024, and the Garret Garretson Homestead, which was directly across the road from the church from 1659 (predating the Bowne House) until 1911. For many years the Garretson family, Dutch in origin, were employed by the William Prince plant nurseries. (A common Dutch naming scheme was naming sons after fathers, and appending the “-son.” According to that scheme, I could be a Kevin Kevinson).

It’s getting so I’m surprised to find a building in downtown Flushing that’s either not very old or very new. FDNY EMS Station 52 on 39th Avenue, formerly Engine 277, was built in the 1925-1935 date range from the looks of things.

Spicy Palace, 38th Avenue and Prince Street, has some interesting scenes from the old country as exterior artwork.

Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church (now Queens Baptist Church), Prince Street between 36th Avenue and 36th Road, is one of the oldest African -American churches in New York City. It was founded in 1870, with the present building erected in 1919. The longtime pastor was  Dr. Timothy P. Mitchell , who worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King. He is remembered on the cornerstone of an adjoining newer church building and on a newly installed street sign.

An empty lot, with a mysterious black box (anyone watch “Dark Matter” on Apple TV?) has replaced RKO Keith’s Theater at Northern Boulevard and Main Street.  RKO Keith’slay empty at the head of Main Street at Northern for over 30 years, resisting all attempts to restore or renovate it; indeed, a previous owner, developer Tommy Huang, gutted much of the lobby. A recent plan to make it a shopping mall, while retaining its  grandiose lobby , stalled and the site is now supposed to be redeveloped. The theater was built by prolific theater architect Thomas Lamb in 1928. Vivid accounts of what this great landmark once looked like, and what became of it, can be found at  cinematreasures . 

One of NYC’s few Spanish-American War memorials is this flagpole at Main St. and Northern Blvd. The park behind it, in the middle of Northern Bouelvard between Main Street and Linden Place is named for Daniel Carter Beard, father of the American Boy Scouts. Beard’s name also graces one of the uglier buildings in Flushing, the Daniel Carter Beard School, on Sanford Avenue and 147 th Street, one of a whole class of 1950s schools that appears to have been modeled on a high-security prison.

“Farrington” is an old name in Flushing and College Point; the first Farringtons arrived in Flushing in the 1640s. Farrington Street, which now ends at the Whitestone Expressway, was formerly a main route between the two communities.

John Farrington opened a farrier and blacksmith on 14th Avenue and 126th Street in College Point 1868, and the business survived into the 21st Century through several modes of animal and mechanically- conducted transportation. I am on Facebook with Farrington family members.

Flushing Town Hall at Northern Boulevard and Linden Place, constructed in 1862 by a local carpenter, an example of Romanesque Revival. It is a reminder of the days before Flushing became a part of Queens and then a part of New York City. Frederick Douglass and P.T. Barnum, and at least two presidents, appeared here during the building’s heyday. After NYC consolidation in 1898 Flushing Town Hall became a municipal courthouse, but it suffered from a gradual deterioration over the decades; there were fitful attempts to turn it into an anthropological museum in the 1970s. When I first moved to Flushing in 1993 it was a rundown heap protected by chicken wire from ever-present vandals.

The story does have a happy ending. Town Hall was magnificently restored in 1995 by the architects Platt Byard Dovell and it is currently the seat of the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts. The magnificent building is now a vibrant locale for local arts programs and jazz concerts. The Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts presents a variety of programs including teacher training workshops, rehearsals and meetings of cultural and community organizations. For information call 718-463-7700, or  visit their website .

Town Hall is a stop on the Flushing Freedom Mile. Colorful and informative signs have been placed at existing Flushing historical sites, such as the Quaker Meeting House across Northern Boulevard from Town Hall, and the John Bowne House on Bowne Street. The latter two structures date to the late 1690s. Much of the hall was closed for a scheduled concert today, but I was able to take a peek at the gallery, which was exhibiting work. by local Korean artists.

In 1909, the auto was beginning to make inroads on America’s highways. But horsepower was still pretty much the way to get around. That year, Edith Bowdoin presented this concrete horse trough to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It must have been placed on Northern Boulevard, if not that year, a long time ago. Incredibly it is still on Northern Blvd., in the center median at Union Street.

Quaker Meetinghouse

The Quaker (Friends) Meetinghouse has been used for Quaker religious services since it was constructed between 1694-1717, a span of over 300 years. Not only is the building remarkable for its great age … it also figured in one of the first shots fired in the ongoing war for religious and personal freedom that is being fought even today.

In 1657, the Dutch still were in charge of New Netherland, and Governor Peter Stuyvesant ruled with an intolerant hand. He forbade any religion but the Dutch Reformed Church of his homeland, even for English settlers who were starting to trickle in. Quaker settlers sent a letter to Stuyvesant in that year that has come to be known as the Flushing Remonstrance, that reiterated the settlers’ desire for religious freedom. The document was signed by Flushing’s town clerk and sheriff, who were not Quakers. Nonetheless, they were soon tossed into prison, then summarily fired. 37 years after the Flushing Remonstrance was presented to Stuyvesant, this meetinghouse was raised in 1694.

At the rear you’ll find a quiet churchyard with graves hundreds of years old that makes quite a rural riposte to bustling Northern Boulevard. Like the Quaker cemetery in the middle of Prospect Park in Brooklyn , gravestones are simple while markers with the name of the deceased and birth and death date at most.

At Quaker meetinghouses, as the name suggests, there are no Sunday services: but all are free to come in for silent worship or discussions with congregation members for those curious about Quakers.

The sign outside the Meetinghouse could almost be called a landmark in its own right, since it has stood here since 1936! Local youth have added their inevitable marks to modern Flushing Freedom Trail signs in some cases.

Flushing’s Armory,   opened in 1905, is smallish as NYC armories go, but it is the only castle-shaped armory in Queens (a large armory in Jamaica is more Deco in construction). It has been home to the National Guard, high school proms, and the NYPD. Much earlier, in 1657, the Flushing Remonstrance (see above) was written in the farmhouse of one Michael Milner.

War Memorials

The inscribed names   on the Flushing’s venerable Civil Wat memorial ,  an obelisk erected in 1865 opposite what would later be the Town Hall site, all of them belonging to volunteer warriors, are fading with time. One of the names is  Captain William Dermody, an outspoken abolitionist who was mortally wounded at the Civil War  Battle of Spotsylvania, VA  in May 1864. He is also remembered at Dermody Square in Bayside Hills and at his gravesite in Mount St. Mary’s Cemetery .

The original Penn Station   (1910-1964) was built from beautiful pink marble similar in appearance to what can be found at  Hermon MacNeil ‘s World War I memorial, in the Northern Boulevard center mall west of Union Street, bearing the names of Flushing’s dead in that conflict. MacNeil, a College Point resident, also designed the “Standing Liberty” quarter (the predecessor to today’s Washington Quarter), the Marquette Memorial in Chicago, and 4 busts in the  Hall of Fame of for Great Americans , among many other works.

The memorial features The traditional  Roman fasces , which consisted of a bundle of birch rods tied together with a red ribbon as a cylinder around an axe. Though adopted by Italian fascism in the early 20th Century, the symbol seems to have avoided the stigma that the swastika acquired after its adoption by the Nazis.

Before today’s colorful and informative Flushing Freedom Mile signs were installed in the 2000s, there was the Flushing Freedom Trail, marked by small red signs and by a red stripe painted on sidwalks. The stripe has disappeared but a couple of the older signs are still in place.

Latimer House

Lewis Latimer (1848-1928), inventor and engineer, was born in Massachusetts to parents formerly held in slavery in Virginia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1864 and upon his release, answered an ad for an office assistant from the patent law firm of Crosby and Gould, ascended to head draftsman, and discovered he had a knack for invention.

While still at Crosby and Gould, Latimer assisted Alexander Graham Bell, providing the drawings for Bell’s patent application for the telephone; after leaving the law firm, Latimer joined the U.S. Electric Lighting Co, a chief rival of Thomas Edison. There he would produce a long-lasting carbon filament that was a major improvement over the one used in Edison’s 1878 electric lightbulb; Edison’s filaments, which used bamboo filaments,  burned out quickly, making early bulbs impractical. Latimer published “Incandescent Electric Lighting, A Practical Description of the Edison System,” an early electric lighting guidebook, and went on to develop arc lamps and cooling and disinfecting devices. Latimer also developed the first threaded lightbulb socket and assisted in the installation of New York City’s first electric streetlamps, among many other inventions.

After residing in Brooklyn for a number of years, Latimer moved his family to a small frame house on Holly Avenue in Flushing, where he corresponded with authors and educators Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. By 1995, the small house, which was in a deteriorating state, was declared a landmark and was later restored to its original condition and moved to a new location at 137th and Leavitt Streets, across the street from the Latimer Houses, which were named for the inventor.

Unfortunately the Latimer House is closed on Sundays (weird!) so I had to shoot through the fence for these views. I have gotten inside on a few occasions, during Open House NY in October and in Flushing’s annual Holiday House Tour, which happens every December and I totally recommend it. In spring 2024, the house was closed while a new exhibit is added.

When the Latimer house was restored and opened as a museum it received a set of Type A park lamps on Leavitt Street. I like them a bit better, though, when they go unpainted for awhile and a patina of rust adds a “glow.”

Flushing High School

Flushing High is landmarked Collegiate Gothic building dating to 1915, rather resembling Shepard Hall at City College of NYC in Morningside Heights. This may be the handsomest high school campus open to the public, as the gates were open on Sunday and I found a bench for a needed breather. The high school itself was chartered in 1875 as the NYC area’s first public high school in Queens County. Over 2000 students go to school at FHS. Alumni include actor George Maharis, restaurateur to the stars Vincent Sardi, Jr., comedian Godfrey Cambridge and Fleshtones singer Peter Zaremba. whose Time Out NY ‘s articles on NYC inspired my own Forgotten NY research.

The Flushing YMCA at Northern Blvd. and Bowne Street was built in 1925. According to the  YMCA website , the organization was founded in 1844 and in 1891, James Naismith invented basketball under the YMCA’s employ. You know what, I keep meaning to sign up for swim lessons at the Y. I consider it a black mark that I never learned (and most animals know how at birth). I was enrolled at the Park Slope Y at age 8, but quit when fear got the best of me. At 66… is it too late…

I have a couple of photos remaining, but it’s Sunday night and as Joe Biden says, I’ll “call a lid.” They’ll make their way to One Shot pages as time goes by.

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These children were living in a foster home when Russian troops invaded Ukraine.

Then a group of Russian officials came and took them.

Over the next year, the authorities filed paperwork to put many of them up for adoption.

Russian officials say the children were rescued. Experts say what happened to them could amount to a war crime.

46 Children Were Taken From Ukraine. Many Are Up for Adoption in Russia.

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The New York Times traced how a web of officials and politicians aligned with President Vladimir V. Putin’s party carried out a campaign to permanently transfer Ukrainian children from Kherson.

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By Yousur Al-Hlou and Masha Froliak

Yousur Al-Hlou and Masha Froliak have investigated atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine since 2022. They traveled across southern Ukraine to report this story.

As news of Russia’s invasion spread through Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Dr. Natalia Lukina was waiting for a taxi at her home.

It was 6 a.m., and she was eager to get to work at Kherson Children’s Home, a state-run foster home for institutionalized children with special needs, where she served as a doctor.

By the time she arrived, the rumble of artillery fired by Russian troops advancing on Kherson City, the region’s capital, was already reverberating through the hallways. The doctor and her fellow caregivers faced a wrenching dilemma: how to protect the dozens of vulnerable children.

They were all infants and toddlers, and some had serious disabilities, such as cerebral palsy. Some had living parents who retained limited custody over them, while others had been removed from troubled homes or abandoned.

“Who else would have stayed behind to look after them?” Dr. Lukina said about her decision to remain with the children. “Imagine if we all turned our backs and left?”

Olena Korniyenko, the director of the foster home and the children’s legal guardian, had prepared emergency bags for the children two weeks earlier, and she had stocked the home with boxes of food, water and diapers.

But the building was not equipped to withstand gunfire or shelling, and the police had already fled the city. When Ms. Korniyenko called the police chief to ask about using their underground bunker just 300 yards away, he warned her that the station would become a military target.

With limited options, Ms. Korniyenko searched online for a map of nearby bomb shelters and found one within walking distance.

Amid exchanges of fire, the staff carried the children and their mattresses by foot and stroller to a concrete basement, taking with them food, medicine, electric pumps and feeding tubes for the sickest children.

A local pastor got word of their plight later that day and urged the foster home staff to take the children to his church, where he could at least provide heat, electricity and food.

So the staff moved the children again, sweeping them into hiding in the basement of Holhofa Church. They stacked boxes of diapers in the windows to keep anyone from seeing in.

One nurse, Kateryna Sirodchuk, said they were afraid that Russian forces would take the children away. “We feared that they could come and take everything under their control,” she said.

And their fears soon came true: On April 25, 2022, Russian officials found the children and took them under their own authority, eventually moving them 180 miles from home — all while filming them for propaganda.

Evidence shows the transfer was part of the broader, systematic campaign by President Vladimir V. Putin and his political allies to strip the most vulnerable victims of the war of their Ukrainian identity. The New York Times reviewed Russian social media posts; obtained photos, videos, text messages and documents; and interviewed more than 110 caregivers, legal experts and Russian and Ukrainian officials to trace the lives and movement of the children as they were taken into Russian custody.

What happened to them next, legal experts say, may amount to a war crime.

Two weeks into the invasion, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, sat across from Mr. Putin in a televised meeting to ask for his help.

She wanted to resettle young Ukrainian children from child-care facilities caught in the crossfire of war. He promised to remove any legal “red tape” so they could be placed permanently with Russian families.

In pronouncements before the invasion, Mr. Putin had made clear that he sought the complete cultural assimilation of Ukrainian towns and cities he believed were historically Russian. And now, as the officials shook hands, a plan for the permanent transfer and deportation of their youngest residents was set in motion.

“They believe deep down that the children are Russian,” said Serhii Plokhy, a Ukraine historian at Harvard University. “You speed up their Russian-ness by kidnapping them.”

For weeks, Ukrainian officials and police officers had struggled to find a way to evacuate the children from Holhofa Church, which was by then occupied territory. They blamed Russia for refusing to open a humanitarian corridor to allow citizens to flee from the shelling.

In April, a Ukrainian commissioner made a plea on Telegram to help rescue them, publicizing their location in the process.

Hours later, armed men led by a Russian official who called himself “Navigator” showed up at the church and demanded that the children be returned to Kherson Children’s Home. Cameras from a Crimea-based propaganda outlet filmed their arrival, and the resulting story accused the Ukrainian authorities of kidnapping the children.

The pastor protested, claiming the children were safer in his basement. But the caregivers had little choice but to obey the orders and take the children back to the foster home in Kherson City, where occupation forces had a tighter grip.

Dr. Lukina later said the move made her suspect that the children would eventually be taken from Ukraine, because “if they didn’t need those children, why would they have made us leave the church?”

In the months that followed, entourages of armed men in Russian military uniforms made frequent, unannounced visits to the foster home to monitor the children and their caregivers.

“They asked, ‘Are all of the children here?’” Dr. Lukina recalled. “We understood that if the children weren’t there, we would be gone, too.”

By the spring of 2022, the occupation of Kherson had become a template for the forced assimilation of a Ukrainian city and its residents: A new occupation government was appointed in Kherson, and a Russian flag was raised outside the foster home, where politicians and armed soldiers made trips delivering aid to the children.

Dr. Lukina scoffed when she recalled some of the impractical donations, which included Russian textbooks and huge packs of soda.

“You know that children can’t drink soda, right?” she said. “They probably just wanted to show the world that they were saving Ukrainian children.”

For the next several months, Russian officials documented their efforts to help the children on their popular channels on Telegram, a messaging platform used widely in Russia.

“Navigator,” the man who had ordered the children removed from the church, visited the foster home repeatedly. He would later be identified as Igor Kastyukevich, a Russian member of Parliament from Mr. Putin’s political party, United Russia.

Anna Kuznetsova, a deputy chairwoman in the Russian Parliament and Ms. Lvova-Belova’s predecessor as children’s rights commissioner, traveled from Moscow to deliver baby products on behalf of the party . “#WeDon’tAbandonOurOwn,” she wrote on Telegram, using a pro-war hashtag to suggest that the children belonged to Russia.

In interviews with The Times, Russian officials echoed that view, saying that the children from Kherson were Russian.

In May, Mr. Putin fulfilled his promise to Ms. Lvova-Belova by issuing a presidential decree that eased citizenship requirements: In Kherson and other occupied regions, Ukrainian caregivers could now file for Russian citizenship on behalf of Ukrainian foster children and orphans.

The decree also expedited the process so that children could become Russian citizens in 90 days or less, instead of up to five years.

The next month, Ms. Korniyenko, the director of the foster home, was summoned to Kherson’s Ministry of Health, now run by the occupation authorities. A Russian-backed official asked her to remain the director, but under his supervision. She was even offered a Russian passport.

But Ms. Korniyenko refused. She’d had enough of the occupiers, who, she said, intimidated the staff by asking them about their political views in a test of their allegiance and carried guns while monitoring the children.

Dr. Lukina resigned, too. She cared deeply about the children, but she didn’t want to have any role in what Russian-backed officials might do to them.

“I didn’t want to take part in it,” she said. “And I was afraid that they would take me away as well.”

In search of a new director, the occupation authorities turned to Dr. Tetiana Zavalska, a pediatrician at the foster home who often worked night and weekend shifts. She was sympathetic to the new occupation administration and made clear her pro-Russian views.

Dr. Zavalska encouraged the occupation authorities to formally register the foster home as a business under the new Russian-backed administration, in order to confer legitimacy to their control over the Ukrainian home and its children.

It was registered that very month.

In August, the Russian state-run television network RT ran a segment celebrating Kherson’s occupation that featured the foster home, now a legal entity in their eyes. As the host, Anton Krasovsky , approached the home’s entrance, he derided the inscription on a plaque affixed to the wall.

“The writing is still in Ukrainian,” he said, before looking up. “But the flag is ours: Russian. It will always be so.”

Dr. Zavalska, the new director, led Mr. Krasovsky on a tour of the building, pausing at the dining room, where some of the children sat at tables in their diapers.

“Enjoy your meal,” he said, as the camera panned across blank faces. “Say thank you,” a caregiver told the children. Only two of them appeared to oblige.

Later in the segment, Dr. Zavalska sat for an interview and described Ukraine’s president as a “clown.”

“I am putting my hope in Russia,” she added.

Broadcasts like these, which highlighted Russia’s efforts to absorb Ukrainian children from occupied territories, were a regular feature on local news outlets in Russia.

Ms. Lvova-Belova, the children’s rights commissioner, was filmed delivering children who had been taken from facilities in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine, to new caregivers. She announced that they had become Russian citizens.

On Telegram, Ms. Lvova-Belova said that she herself had fostered a Ukrainian teenager, who then obtained Russian citizenship.

Some experts on the region view these actions as a publicly orchestrated campaign by the Kremlin to justify the invasion and cast Mr. Putin as a savior.

“This is Putin’s version of doing God’s work,” said Andrew S. Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “It’s utter theater laced with this pseudo-historical view that there’s no such thing as Ukraine.”

As Mr. Putin illegally annexed Kherson and three other regions, Ukrainian forces began a military campaign to retake Kherson City.

Russian officials, fearing they might lose their grip, came up with a plan for the children in the foster home. In a private online chat for medical students, health officials in Russian-occupied Crimea recruited volunteers to help move them.

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The Times obtained, and redacted, a private message sent to medical students in Crimea on Oct. 20, 2022.

Natalia Kibkalo, a nurse who had worked at the home for 30 years, had just put nearly a dozen children to bed, all sick with Covid, when she heard the news: The children would be removed in the morning.

Dismayed, she could not sleep. Instead, she and other caregivers spent the night sewing the children’s names into their jackets and organizing bundles of clothes for them.

The next morning, on Oct. 21, she changed diapers and fed the children, following the normal pattern of their days. But she couldn’t stand the thought of helping to send them away and took a taxi home.

“We understood that we couldn’t do anything, that we could not stop it from happening,” Ms. Kibkalo said. “I don’t know how I could have lived after seeing that.”

Around 8 a.m., ambulances and white buses marked with the letter Z, a symbol of the Russian invasion, arrived at the foster home.

The group included Mr. Kastyukevich, “Navigator,” as well as the Crimean health minister at the time — also a member of Mr. Putin’s political party — his deputy, the student volunteers and several administrators from another foster home who would eventually become the children’s new caretakers.

Igor Kastyukevich Member of the Russian Parliament

Konstantin Skorupskiy Former health minister of Crimea

Anton Lyaskovskiy Deputy health minister of Crimea

Tetiana Zavalska Newly appointed foster home director

Aleksandr Vasyukov Former director at Yolochka, a children's home

Margarita Suslova Former deputy director at Yolochka

Yevgeniya Dmitrievskaya Social worker at Yolochka

Vitaliy Utkin Facilities manager at Yolochka

Dr. Zavalska gathered the children’s personal legal documents and medical records, preparing case files for each one.

Outside the home, Mr. Kastyukevich held one child in his arms and kissed him before passing him on as, one by one, the names of the 46 children were called out. Then they were carried onto the waiting buses and ambulances in their winter coats.

The convoy left the foster home later that morning, traversing the river in a perilous journey over a makeshift pontoon. By evening, they had arrived at their final destination.

The whereabouts of the children were never formally disclosed to Ukrainian officials, they said. But Russian officials left clues on Telegram.

The children were taken to the Crimean capital, Simferopol, and divided between two children’s facilities, including Yolochka, whose staff had previously been investigated for negligence.

Mr. Kastyukevich, who arrived with fur booties and mittens for the children, wrote on Telegram that the conditions were “much better than before.”

Russian officials have argued that the removal was an act of humanitarian intervention and legal under their Constitution because they annexed Kherson and controlled its population.

“It doesn’t matter who they are and who they were,” said Svetlana Scherbakova, a child services director in Crimea. “The children now have a peaceful sky over their heads.”

But human rights experts say Russia’s national laws do not override international obligations.

While temporarily evacuating children for their safety is permissible during conflict, it must follow strict protocols . Because Russia has not formally tracked the children’s movement or given intermediaries access to the children, the evacuation is a forcible transfer under international humanitarian law, according to Stephen J. Rapp, a former U.S. ambassador at large for global criminal justice.

“What Russia views as a humanitarian mission is a blatant war crime,” he said.

When Ms. Lvova-Belova, the children’s rights commissioner, traveled from Moscow to visit the home in Crimea, she said her office would help place the children with Russian foster families, but only if their birth parents could not be identified in Ukraine.

This was not always true.

At least one set of parents said they learned their children were in Crimea only when Times journalists visited them in Kherson six months later — even though documents showed that Russian officials had their names and address.

Their children, Mykola, who had autism, and Anastasiya Volodin, who had cerebral palsy, were placed in state custody years ago after the couple was deemed unable to care for them. Ukrainian courts had yet to decide on their parental rights, but the couple never imagined that their son and daughter might be taken from Kherson.

“I won’t allow anybody to adopt them,” said their father, Roman Volodin.

In the winter of 2022, the new caregivers, along with Dr. Zavalska, the appointed legal guardian, took steps to formally integrate the children in Russian society, even though some of them had birth parents in Ukraine who still had legal rights or who were known to the Russian authorities.

First, the caregivers applied for Russian birth certificates for the children — including the Volodin siblings — and translated their names into Russian.

The caregivers also arranged for the children to get Russian social security numbers, saying it was a requirement for the children to receive medical care.

The new documents were inadvertently revealed in a Telegram post by Russian-appointed officials .

Eventually, the children received Russian citizenship, the final step necessary to make them eligible for adoption and permanent placement with Russian families.

Legal experts said that the new documents, along with the translation of their names and their new nationalities, revealed an intent by the Russian authorities to strip the children of their Ukrainian identity, in violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child . It may also amount to a war crime.

In December 2022, Mr. Putin signed yet another decree, allowing caregivers in occupied territories to renounce the Ukrainian citizenship of children in their custody.

Emboldened Russian officials said that there were no plans to repatriate children to Ukraine and that the children would continue to receive the “full support” of the state.

“These children now have Russian documents,” Mr. Kastyukevich said in an interview. “Let’s move on.”

The first anniversary of the war brought presidential state awards from Mr. Putin to the two Crimean officials — the health minister at the time and his deputy — who helped orchestrate the transfer of the children from Kherson.

But the very next day, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Mr. Putin and his children’s rights commissioner, accusing them of “unlawfully” taking “at least hundreds of children” from children’s homes across Ukraine.

“There is no suggestion that this was a temporary relocation after which the children would be repatriated,” said Payam Akhavan, a former prosecutor at The Hague.

Neither Mr. Putin’s office nor Ms. Lvova-Belova’s office responded to multiple requests for comment from The Times. But in public statements, the commissioner pledged to continue her work. At a news conference last year, Mr. Putin’s office dismissed the warrants as “petty.” Months later, Mr. Putin said there would be no “obstacles” to returning the children — so long as their parents traveled to claim them.

It is unlikely that either official will face trial, but legal experts described the case against them as “bulletproof,” citing the abundance of evidence that can be traced through open-source data.

There is no consensus, though, on how many children were forcibly transferred or deported to Russia, in part because of Ukraine’s decentralized child-care system. Ukraine claims the total number is about 19,500 children, but in interviews, officials in Kyiv struggled to break down or verify their data.

It has been 19 months since the children were removed from the foster home. A compilation of their images — from Kherson to Crimea — reveals how much they’ve grown in that time, making them harder to recognize even for their Ukrainian caregivers.

That may also pose a challenge to Ukrainian investigators, who are trying to track and return the children, and who have opened criminal cases against Mr. Kastyukevich, “Navigator,” and Dr. Zavalska, the director.

Last August, legal guardianship of the children changed hands yet again, from Dr. Zavalska to the Russian-administered Ministry of Labor and Social Policy for the Kherson region.

The appointed minister, Alla Barkhatnova, said that there was a “moral, ethical and legal” obligation to find families for them in Russia.

“We have people waiting in line to adopt or become foster parents,” she added.

Weeks later, their photos began to appear on a Russian federal adoption site, amid those of tens of thousands of Russian children. Their profiles, 22 in total, listed them as children from Crimea and made no mention of their birth country, Ukraine.

At least two of the children have been placed with Russian families, according to child services in Crimea.

Seven of the children from Kherson Children’s Home have returned to Ukraine with the assistance of Ukrainian authorities and third-party Qatari mediators . They included Anastasiya and Mykola Volodin, whose mother traveled this February to Moscow to claim them.

Anastasiya later died in a Ukrainian hospital just weeks after her sixth birthday. A doctor attributed her death to an epileptic seizure. Ukrainian authorities have resumed care of Mykola while a court determines whether his parents can be his legal guardians.

For now, the rest of the children from Kherson remain in Russian custody.

HOW WE REPORTED THIS STORY

Times reporters conducted more than 110 interviews over the course of a year with the children’s relatives and caregivers from Kherson Children’s Home, Ukrainian officials and prosecutors, Russian-appointed officials in occupied Kherson and Crimea, caregivers at two Crimean children’s facilities, humanitarian volunteers in Crimea, adoption support group administrators, attorneys in Russia, international war crimes lawyers and experts, historians, and military experts.

To trace the 46 children from Kherson Children’s Home to Crimea, The Times searched Ukrainian police and government missing persons directories and found the children’s full names and photographs. (Reporters discovered errors in some of the profiles that were later corrected by Ukrainian investigators after they were contacted by The Times.) Using these profiles, as well as images obtained exclusively from the children’s caregivers, The Times confirmed the whereabouts of the children on at least 13 occasions between 2022 and 2023. Reporters discovered the children in videos and photos posted to Telegram by Russian officials who visited them, in documentaries produced by Russian propaganda outlets and in advertisements for a Russian Christmas toy drive. The reporters built a database of the children’s faces over time and corroborated their results with Ukrainian caregivers. They then used the data to sift through thousands of profiles on a Russian federal adoption website and identified at least 22 children from Kherson Children’s Home who have been put up for adoption and foster care in Russia.

To identify the Russian officials involved in planning and carrying out the removal of the children, The Times paired interviews with data obtained from public platforms, including legislation and archives published by the Office of the President of Russia and the Office of the Children’s Rights Commissioner; Crimean and Russian news clips; photos posted to Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, two popular social networks in Russia; videos shared on public Telegram channels of Ukrainian and Russian officials; and tax documents found on the Russian registry of legal entities. Reporters cross-referenced their findings with exclusive documents, text messages and photographs provided by the children’s caregivers in Kherson and volunteers in Crimea — some of which were reviewed by analysts at the Institute for the Study of War. They also reviewed and independently verified information sourced from Telegram bots that leak Russian data, and websites that use facial recognition software.

Video and photo editing by Natalie Reneau. Translations and additional research by Oksana Nesterenko. Additional translation by Milana Mazaeva. Rebecca Lieberman contributed design from New York. Adam Coll, Slava Yatsenko, Anton Lavreniuk and Evelina Riabenko contributed field production from Kherson City.

Yousur Al-Hlou is a senior video journalist for The Times reporting on breaking news and investigative stories in conflict zones around the world. More about Yousur Al-Hlou

Masha Froliak is a journalist who has been covering the war in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022. More about Masha Froliak

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