2 July 2014, RISU The Churches of World Orthodoxy are affected by the situation in Ukraine. Therefore the way to the Pan-Orthodox council to which many Christians are looking forward will to…
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The Russian president is neither a Tsar or a Communist, but his foreign policy shows little difference from either By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith on Tuesday, 1 July 2014 The continuities of history…
Veliky Novgorod, June 30, Interfax – Novgorod residents founded an Orthodox Church of the Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign not far from the mouth of Indigirka River…
Moscow, June 30, Interfax – On Sunday, Ukrainian army shelled residential districts of Slavyansk again, St. Alexander Cathedral was under fire. “The shelling started in 10:00 a.m. during the Liturgy. People started…
Sloviansk, June 30, 2014 On June 29, in spite of the cease-fire agreement, the Ukrainian troops again shelled residential districts of Sloviansk. The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was shelled once more,…
Samara, June 25, Interfax – Russian specialists are helping to restore the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Russia’s presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich…
At the Mass at St Peter’s on the Solemnity of SS Peter & Paul, Pope Francis conferred the Pallium on new Archbishops. Present was Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon, heading a delegation…
06.29.14, Peter Schwartzstein, The Daily Beast Reeling from regional developments and disillusioned with the West, some Iraqi Christians are looking to Russia for support. After a decade of church bombings, targeted killings,…
Through the looking glass: June 27, 2014 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has awarded Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with an order for “glory and honor.” Patriarch Kirill gave the…
27 June 2014, By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service Crimean officials deny that a decree which will lead to a substantial rise in the rent the Kiev Patriarchate Ukrainian Orthodox Church…