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