Tag: russia

A young American has moved to Russia for being able to practice Orthodoxy

obl- September 24, 2012

24/9/2012 READ FULL INTERVIEW HERE: Moscow, September 24, Interfax – 33-years-old American George Green, a former programmer has given up his career in the USA ... Read More

A young American has moved to Russia for being able to practice Orthodoxy

obl- September 24, 2012

24/9/2012 READ FULL INTERVIEW HERE: Moscow, September 24, Interfax – 33-years-old American George Green, a former programmer has given up his career in the USA ... Read More

Crosses torn down and Pussy Riot slogans on a church in Georgia

obl- September 17, 2012

Nina Achmatova 17/9/2012 Episodes of intolerance continue in the wake of sentencing of the Russian feminist punk band. Orthodox Church debate whether this is due ... Read More

The New Soviet League of Militant Godless

obl- September 13, 2012

13/9/2012 Philip Jenkins It sounds like a scriptwriter’s dream. Here we have Russia, a vastly powerful country with a floundering democracy, facing the imminent threat ... Read More

The New Soviet League of Militant Godless

obl- September 13, 2012

13/9/2012 Philip Jenkins It sounds like a scriptwriter’s dream. Here we have Russia, a vastly powerful country with a floundering democracy, facing the imminent threat ... Read More

Syrian clergymen: Our duty is to join efforts to defend Syria

obl- September 11, 2012

11/9/2012 Syria’s Grand Mufti Dr. Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun and Greek Orthodox Patriarchal Assistant Bishop Luca al- Khouri called Syrian communities in Syria’s Grand Mufti Dr Read More

Syrian clergymen: Our duty is to join efforts to defend Syria

obl- September 11, 2012

11/9/2012 Syria’s Grand Mufti Dr. Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun and Greek Orthodox Patriarchal Assistant Bishop Luca al- Khouri called Syrian communities in Syria’s Grand Mufti Dr. ... Read More

Who Is Chopping Down Russia’s Crosses?

obl- September 7, 2012

Claire Bigg 6/9/2012 Topuchaya’s 220 inhabitants never thought their tiny Siberian village would one day make headlines. Yet this week, news that a Russian Orthodox ... Read More

Russia must protect believers from Pussy Riot: Putin

obl- September 7, 2012

7/9/2012 MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia was obliged to protect feelings of religious believers in the case of jailed opposition punk rockers ... Read More

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Celebrates Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”

obl- September 1, 2012

Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia 1/9/2012 On the feast day of the Dormition of the Most-Holy Mother of God, August 28, 2012, His Eminence Metropolitan ... Read More