Tag: Russian Orthodox
Russian Church official attacks Stalin but says Soviet history is not all bad
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
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?
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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