Tag: Nina Achmatova

Solovki: Roman Catholic and Orthodox students together in the gulag archipelago

OCP- August 14, 2013

Nina Achmatova - 14/8/13 Sponsored by the Moscow Patriarchate and the Moscow Municipality, the volunteer project will see young people work to improve the conditions ... Read More

For Moscow Patriarchate, living in poverty is a danger for clergy

OCP- July 10, 2013

  Nina Achmatova - 10/7/13 Archpriest Chaplin calls on believers to avoid the trap of  secular forces who want to lower the social status of ... Read More

Syrian and Coptic Christians Fleeing to Moscow, But Russia Lacks Shelters

OCP- February 7, 2013

Assyrian International News Agency -  Nina Achmatova Asia News 7/2/13 Moscow -- A flow of refugees from Syria and Egypt is pouring into Moscow to escape ... Read More

Moscow Patriarchate calls for Orthodox-Muslim alliance against extremism

OCP- December 11, 2012

Nina Achmatova -11/12/12 Metropolitan Hilarion says Wahamism is a common threat to the two religions in Russia and the Middle East. In his view, Muslim ... Read More

Moscow scientific university announces chair in theology

OCP- October 22, 2012

Nina Achmatova 21/10/2012 National University for Nuclear Studies launches courses in theology, while the Russian Orthodox Church prepares a document on faith and science. Moscow ... Read More

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

OCP- 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

Orthodox Church concerned about anti-foreign NGOs bill

OCP- July 6, 2012

Nina Achmatova 3/7/2012 Foreign-funded Russian NGOs involved in political activities must register as foreign agents. Since the Orthodox Church receives funds from its foreign dioceses, ... Read More

50 Thousand Orthodox Christians Venerate Holy Belt of the Virgin in Moscow

OCP- November 22, 2011

By Nina Achmatova 11/22/2011 Asia News The relic, one of the most venerated in the Orthodox world, ends its tour of Russia at the Cathedral ... Read More

Russian priest ends run for Kremlin

OCP- September 24, 2011

by Nina Achmatova 09/20/2011 Ioann Okhlobystin pulls out after he fails to gain the support of the Moscow Patriarchate. Oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov gives up his ... Read More

Patriarchate of Moscow launches program for protection of Christians Worldwide

OCP- June 23, 2011

By Nina Achmatova 06/23/201 The World Russian People's Council will regularly publish information about violence and abuse against the community. Orthodox Church concerned over christianophobia ... Read More

Five new dioceses to reinforce the authority of the Moscow Patriarch

OCP- June 6, 2011

by Nina Achmatova 06/06/2011 The synod approves the reorganisation of the canonical territory, still based on the Soviet framework with parishes in the same dioceses ... Read More