by Vladimir Rozanskij, Asia News, 21 march 2014 Kirill not present for Putin’s great speech to the Duma. While Russia follows in the footsteps of the empire of Ivan the Terrible, the…
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The Kyivan Patriarchal Church of Ukraine is not currently recognised by other Orthodox Churches as canonical at the insistence of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate from which it seceded…
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, with great sadness, announces the passing unto life eternal of His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Philip (Saliba), Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan…
Mar 20th, 2014 The following document was approved at a session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on March 19, 2014 (Journal No. 3). The attention of the entire…
The Moscow Times, Mar. 20 2014 Priests from the Moscow-based Orthodox Church have threatened to seize property belonging to a rival denomination in Crimea Priests from the Moscow-based Orthodox Church accompanied by…
19 March 2014, 12:34 Minister of Culture of Ukraine Yevhen Nyshchuk called on Crimeans to maintain interreligious peace and tolerance. “The Maidan showed how various denominations can coexist peacefully. The whole world…
19.03.2014 In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off-the-record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, “They only know how to…
We have just received this message: “Archbishop Klyment reports that Kyiv Patriarchate parishes have been visited by representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate and told that Moscow will take over their buildings as…
Hierodeacon Nicolai at the Tokyo Cathedral of the Resurrection (Mospat.ru) Hierodeacon Nikolai (Ono) comes from an old family of priests of the Japanese Orthodox Church. His great-great grandfather’s name—Priest John Ono—is often…
17 March 2014, 13:52 On March 17 in Luhansk, the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Kyivan Patriarchate were called to dialogue. With a proposal to create a committee…