Tag: Russian Orthodox

Russian Church official attacks Stalin but says Soviet history is not all bad

OCP- March 4, 2013

4/3/12 A top Russian Orthodox cleric has praised the Russian people for disrupting Stalin’s plan to change the historical course of Russia, but at the ... Read More

Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria receives delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church

OCP- February 27, 2013

On February 26, 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with His Holiness Neofit, Patriarch of ... Read More

Meteors: A message from God or just more global warming?

OCP- February 17, 2013

17/2/13 "Is this an effect of, perhaps, global warming...?" As reported on the Russian news portal RIA Novosti on Feb. 15, 2013, the recent meteor ... Read More

Pope resigns – implications for Russian Orthodox Church

OCP- February 12, 2013

12/2/13 The Vatican announced on Monday that Pope Benedict XVI is to resign, stunning 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide. VoR looks into what implications this will ... Read More

Lecture on Orthodoxy held in Karachi City

OCP- February 7, 2013

OCP News Service - 7/2/13 Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan Karachi:Father Adrian the Orthodox  mission Director of Pakistan was invited to speak to one family and ... Read More

First Ever Seminar on Orthodoxy held in Sindh Province of Pakistan

OCP- February 5, 2013

The Russian Orthodox Chuch of Pakistan OCP  News Service 5/2/13 Sindh: Father Adrian the Orthodox mission Director of Pakistan visited Hyderabad and shared the good ... Read More

Tolstoy’s Relation to the Russian Orthodox Church

OCP- February 5, 2013

Amanda Graber, Demand Media - 5/2/13 One of Russia's towering literary figures, Leo Tolstoy wrote many celebrated novels and short stories in the late nineteenth ... Read More

The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Opens at Christ the Savior Cathedral

OCP- February 3, 2013

On February 2, 2013, the Hall of Church Councils of Christ the Savior   Cathedral in Moscow was the setting for the opening of the Holy ... Read More

Russian Patriarch Urges Church Presence in Social Networks

OCP- February 3, 2013

3/2/13 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti) - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on Saturday lamented a high number of antichurch internet posts and ... Read More

Holy Synod of Russian Orthodox Church begins its first session in 2013

OCP- January 31, 2013

On 30 January 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia chaired the first in 2013 session of the Holy Synod of the ... Read More

Russian Orthodox Church helps to rehabilitate drug addicts

OCP- January 31, 2013

Darya Zagvozdina, Gazeta.ru - 30/1/13 A derelict village located eight hours northeast of Moscow by car hosts one of the 60 rehabilitation centers for drug ... Read More

Khorezm gets 1st Orthodox temple

OCP- January 19, 2013

19/1/13 URGENCH, Uzbekistan – Workers have finished building the first Russian Orthodox temple in Khorezm Oblast, Fergana News reported January 18. The workers installed domes ... Read More

Russian Church outraged by abuses of Orthodox Christians in Kosovo

OCP- January 16, 2013

6/1/13 The Russian Orthodox Church has expressed outrage at the arrests and beatings of Orthodox believers in Kosovo during the Christmas holidays. In a statement ... Read More

Poland’s president hosts Orthodox Church leader

OCP- January 14, 2013

  Sawa, Orthodox Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland (L) with President Bronislaw Komorowska (C) and First Lady Anna Komorowska (R): photo - ... Read More

Russian Orthodox leader: Church is strong

OCP- January 7, 2013

MOSCOW, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, said Sunday the church will defy campaigns seeking to minimize its work. "The ... Read More

Holy Synod approves documents regulating liturgical, administrative and social activity and establishes new dioceses

OCP- December 31, 2012

On 26 December 2012, the Holy Synod continued its sessions at the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in St Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow under the chairmanship ... Read More

Artifacts Reported Stolen from Hollywood Russian Orthodox Church

OCP- December 29, 2012

Guy McCarthy - 28/12/12 Items listed as stolen from the church's altar room on Dec. 22 include ornate metal crosses and chalices. Los Angeles police are ... Read More

Russian Orthodox Church to be built in Strasbourg

OCP- December 26, 2012

26/12/12 The Russian Orthodox Church has obtained permission for the construction of a church in Strasbourg. On Monday, Strasbourg Mayor Rolland Ries handed the necessary ... Read More

World and Clergy exhibition takes place in Kaluga region

OCP- December 22, 2012

Ekaterina Polyanskaya - 22/12/12 The sixth exhibition-fair "World and Clergy" took place in Kaluga in November, with the blessing of Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga and ... Read More

An Exhibition of Russian Orthodox Icons Opens in the Argentinian Capital

OCP- December 19, 2012

19/12/12 An exhibition of the traditions of Russian Orthodox icon-painting opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 13, 2012. This show acquaints the Argentinian audience ... Read More

Russia should not copy Western democracy, Eastern caliphate – Russian Orthodox Church

OCP- December 15, 2012

Stavropol, December 12, Interfax - Russia will not copy foreign political models, no matter if it is Western democracy or a world caliphate, Archpriest Vsevolod ... Read More