Tag: Soviet Union
TOTAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS INCREASING, GLOBAL SHARE DECREASING ACCORDING TO PEW RESEARCH STUDY
Georgia, Imereti region, Chiatura city, Mgvimevi Monastery church. pewforum.org Orthochristian.com - 10/11/17 While the total Orthodox Christian population throughout the world has more than doubled over ... Read More
“I Don’t Want the Russian Church Abroad to Lose Its Identity” – Protopriest Peter Perekrestov
The Official Website of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia - September 2017 You were born and reared in ... Read More
“Vladyka Lavr Truly Loved the Church”
http://www.synod.com/ ROCOR Studies - Archpriest Victor Boldewskul - September 2017 Father Victor Boldewskul was born in 1968 in Rochester, NY. From the age of 13, ... Read More
STAMPS SHOW HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIANITY IN MOLDOVA: STAMPS OF EASTERN EUROPE
Linn's Stamp News - May 2016 Historically, it would be hard to overstate the national and cultural influence of the Orthodox Church in Moldova. Today, upwards ... Read More
Christmas Then… and Now
Finian Cunningham - www.sputniknews.com - 26/12/15 Demonically, in time for Christmas, we learn that the rulers of the United States of America had plans at one time ... Read More
Splashes of religiosity characterize war years in the USSR – the Patriarchate official says
Interfax-religion Moscow, April 28, Interfax - The Soviet Union experienced a religious renaissance in the years of the Great Patriotic War. “Documents on the Smolensk ... Read More
Historic cathedral returned to Russian Orthodox Church
CatholicCulture.org - April 2015 The Russian government has returned Smolny Convent and Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church, according to a report from AsiaNews. The convent, ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill urges Europe to return to Christian values, warns against ‘rewriting history’
November 2014 Europe has switched from being a Christian bastion to a locomotive destroying faith, said Patriarch Kirill, the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, ... Read More
Cross set up, prayer said in North Pole
Moscow, April 7, Interfax - Members of the Association of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Heroes of Russia, polar researchers, statesmen, public figures and ... Read More
Controversial Protestant church putting down roots in Ukraine
14/2/2012 The Embassy of God church in Ukraine has attracted a number of adherents, as well as a number of detractors. While founder Sunday Adelaja ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill considers collapse of the USSR a decay of historical Russia
Moscow, November 15, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes collapse of the Soviet Union was a negative event. "This year we ... Read More
Russia May Ditch Liberal Abortion Laws
By the Associated Press 31/5/2011 (AP) – Russia's Orthodox Church teamed with Conservative parliamentarians yesterday to push legislation that would radically restrict abortions in a ... Read More
Armenian Awakening: Revival of a Church
Diana Markosian | Moscow 15/1/2011 The voices of a small Armenian choir reverberate off the ancient walls of a 17th century church in the rugged ... Read More
World Russian People’s Council to open in Moscow
25/05/2010 The World Russian People's Council will open in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss issues related to national education and juvenile justice, a Russian Orthodox ... Read More