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Russian Orthodox Church to Honor Bulgarian Batak Martyrs
3/6/2011 The Russian Orthodox Church has made the decision to officially honor the Bulgarian victims of the Batak and Novo Selo Massacres in 1876. Read More
Angry priests damn Church’s relationship with the State
By Tom Washington 03/06/2011 A turbulent troika of priests has abandoned the Russian Orthodox Church over its supposedly heretical dealings with earthly powers. Fraternising with ... Read More
Shevchenko and the Peresopnytsia Gospels
TARAS SHEVCHENKO. SELF-PORTRAIT (1845) PORTRAIT OF YOSIP BODIANSKY, THE MAN WHO FIRST MADE THE PERESOPNYTSIA GOSPELS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE SAINT MATTHEW, COPY OF THE PERESOPNYTSIA GOSPELS’ ... Read More
Orthodox Church warns against hasty decisions over Lenin Reburial
(RIA Novosti) 25/5/2011 The Russian Orthodox Church urges against rushed decisions over the removal of the embalmed body of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin from the ... Read More
Praying With Icons: A Short History of Icons – Excerpt
By Jim Forest 18/5/2011 Visit Jim and Nancy Forest’s website here Here follows an extract from Praying With Icons by Jim Forest, published by Orbis ... Read More
Russian First Lady seen actively promoting Orthodox Church
Paul Goble 5/10/2011 Svetlana Medvedeva, Russia’s first lady, currently plays an active role in promoting the spread of the values of the Russian Orthodox Church ... Read More
They dream about autocephaly in Abkhazia
04/05/2011 Gocha Gvaramia “The Club of exsperts” On May 15th it can get really hot in Abkhazia. But in this case it will not be ... Read More
The Consecration of His Grace, Bishop Matthias
Orthodox Church in America 30/4/2011 CHICAGO, IL [OCA] — Archimandrite Matthias [Moriak] was consecrated to the episcopacy during the Divine Liturgy at Christ the Savior ... Read More
Russian Church Responds To Osama’s Death
May 3, 2011 Interfax The elimination of the ‘number one terrorist’ does not solve the terror problem, said Archpriest Georgy Roschin, deputy head of the ... Read More
Moscow and Kiev strengthen Orthodox Ties
Milena Faustova 3/5/2011 An opinion poll conducted in Ukraine by the Institute of Sociology shows that almost 50 percent of Ukrainians put their trust in ... Read More