Tag: Russia
MORE THAN 75,000 CHILDREN RECEIVED FREE FOOD DURING GREAT LENT IN RUSSIA
Photo: foma.ru Pravoslavie.ru - 22/4/17 From February 1 to April 15 the Rus’ Foundation distributed free food products from the Lyubyatovo company to more than ... Read More
Explore Russian Old Believers’ Village 150 Years After Alaska Purchase by US
© Sputnik/ Tatyana Lukyanova Sputniknews - 5/4/17 Sputnik takes you on a tour through a village of Russian Old Believers on the Kenai Peninsula in ... Read More
OCP Secretariat Condemns Terrorist Attack in St.Petersburg : Stand in Solidarity with the Russian People
OCP News Service - 4/4/17 The Secretariat of the Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE (Pan-Orthodox Christian Movement) issued the below statement in solidarity with the victims of the ... Read More
ST. PETERSBURG METRO ROCKED BY TWO EXPLOSIONS IN POSSIBLE TERRORIST ATTACK
Photo: pbs.twimg.com Pravoslavie.ru - 3/4/17 The St. Petersburg metro station was attacked by exploding shrapnel-filled devices this afternoon, leaving at least ten dead, The Telegraph ... Read More
Scientologists Profited From $53 Million in ‘Donations’ Made in Russia in Years
© Sputnik/ Mihail Kutusov Sputniknews - April 2017 The Church of Scientology could have extracted about 3 billion rubles (over $53 million) in donations made ... Read More
March for Life 2017: Help the Mother and the Child! They Depend on You!
Aurelian Iftimiu - Basilica News Agency - 28/3/17 The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, during its working session of 9 February 2017, blessed the ... Read More
ACTIVITIES OF RUSSIAN JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES SUSPENDED DUE TO EXTREMISM
Pravoslavie.ru - 25/3/17 The activities of the head organization of the Jehovah’s Witnesses have been suspended in Russia, reports RIA-Novosti with reference to the Ministry ... Read More
MET. HILARION (ALFEYEV) SUGGESTS REMOVING REVOLUTIONARIES’ NAMES FROM PUBLIC PLACES
Photo: Pravoslavie.ru Pravoslavie.ru - 16/3/17 The head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk has lent his support to removing ... Read More
FOUNDATION OF ROYAL MARTYRS CHURCH LAID AT SITE OF TSAR’S ABDICATION
Photo: Foma.ru Pravoslavie.ru - 16/3/17 On March 14, Metropolitan Eusebius of Pskov and Porkhov celebrated the rite of the founding of a temple in honor ... Read More
How Serbia Welcomed in Russians Fleeing Political Upheavals of 1917
© Photo: Novik A.N. Professor Andrey Tarasyev from Belgrade University . © SPUTNIK/ SENKA MILOS Sputniknews - 15/2/17 2017 marks the centenary of the February ... Read More
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS REMAIN IN ALEPPO WITH RUSSIA’S HELP—PATRIARCH JOHN X
Photo: RIA Novosti Pravoslavie.ru - 11/2/17 “I visited Aleppo. Of the approximately four million people in the city, about thirty-five thousand Christians remain, including Orthodox,” ... Read More
WEDGE BETWEEN RUSSIANS AND UKRAINIANS IS DEVIL’S WORK—PATRIARCH KIRILL
Photo: https://ria.ru/ Pravoslavie.ru - 29/1/17 In a speech to the Russian State Duma on Thursday, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill spoke of the lamentable state of ... Read More
Daesh Militants Turn Christian Church Into Caliphate’s Сhildren Training Center
© Photo: Youtube/Channel 4 News Sputniknews - 24/1/17 Daesh militants have turned the main Christian church in the Iraqi town of Tall Kayf into a ... Read More
PHOTO Cold Hands, Warm Hearts: Russians Brave the Cold to Celebrate Orthodox Epiphany
Sputniknews - 21/1/17 Along with Easter, Epiphany is one of the oldest Christian holidays, celebrated by Orthodox Christians in Russia during the night of January ... Read More
Syrian Pastor: US Congressmen Blast Obama’s Foreign Policy While Visiting Aleppo
© Sputnik/ Mohamad Maruf Sputniknews - 20/1/17 A group of US lawmakers visiting the Syrian city of Aleppo has slammed the outgoing president administration's policies ... Read More
Understanding the Christian Crisis in the Middle East
ANIA - 13/1/17 (AINA) -- Elizabeth Kendal, an international religious liberty analyst and advocate, has published a book titled After Saturday Comes Sunday: Understanding the ... Read More
Syrian Christians Invite Russian Patriarch to Visit Country
Sputnknews - 10/1/17 Syrian Christians and scientists invited Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to visit the Middle Eastern country, Chief Mufti of Moscow ... Read More
Christmas in Eastern Orthodox Church: Facts & Details
© Sputnik/ Konstantin Chalabov Sputniknews - 7/1/17 While most commonly Christmas is celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on December 25, the Eastern Orthodox Church ... Read More
Church of the Savior on Blood Rated Top Tourist Attraction in Russia
© Sputnik/ Alexei Danichev © FLICKR/ KEVIN JONES © FLICKR/ ROB WILLIAMS Sputniknews - 28/12/16 A 19th century St. Petersburg church was recently declared as ... Read More
Hundreds Gather for Christmas Celebrations in Liberated Aleppo
© REUTERS/ Omar Sanadiki Sputniknews - 22/12/16 Hundreds have flocked to a square in western Aleppo to celebrate Christmas for the first time in years ... Read More
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Catholicos of All Armenians Received Hermitage Museum Director
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin - 18/12/16 On December 13, in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos ... Read More