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Steve Hoover

Review: ‘Almost Holy’

by Pat Mullen
April 7, 2016December 27, 2021
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In Almost Holy, Steve Hoover observes the work of Gennadiy “Pastor Crocodile” Mokhnenko, a priest who runs an orphanage for street children.

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