Tag: ITAR
Archaeological museums may appear at Moscow churches
August 2014 In Moscow archaeological museums may appear attached to churches. This was announced on Thursday at a press conference by Leonid Belyayev, head of ... Read More
New York Street may be Named in Honor of Holy Patriarch Tikhon
August 2014 The Northern Cross Historical Society of Russian Compatriots in the USA has proposed naming a street in New York City after Holy Patriarch ... Read More
Russian Orthodox church helps flood victims in Serbia
22/5/14 Over the past two days Belgrade cathedrals have received 47 tons of humanitarian aid and turned it over to the people who need it. ... Read More
All shrines of Ma’loula either destroyed or desecrated
20/1/14 A radical Jabhat al-Nusra "opposition" group, which occupied the small Christian town of Ma'loula in Syria in the last months of 2013, desecrated absolutely ... Read More
Camp for pilgrims expected at the 700th anniversary service of St. Sergius to be built near Moscow
January 2014 In July this year, near the walls of Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra in the Moscow region, a tent camp measuring 44 hectares will ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill and hierarchs of Local Orthodox Churches head to Kiev for Rus Baptism festivities
27/7/13- ITAR-TASS Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and the hierarchs of the Local Orthodox Churches have left for Kiev by special train to ... Read More
VANDALISM ATTEMPT MADE AGAINST THE CZESTOCHOWA ICON
11/12/12 A fifty-eight-year-old man threw vials of black paint at the Czestochowa icon in the Jasna Góra Monastery in southern Poland on Sunday, reports ITAR-TACC. ... Read More
ROC Priests to Run for Elections
6/10/2012 The governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church has allowed clerics to run for elected office "in the event of ecclesiastical necessity." In its ... Read More