Konstantin Preobrazhensky, a former Lt. Colonel in the KGB who defected to the United States in 1993, is an intelligence expert and specialist on Japan, about which he has written six books. This is a chapter of Konstantin...
The closest living relative of tsar Nikolaj II Olga Nikolaevna Kulikovskaja-Romanova refuted the statement that a blood sample of her husband, nephew of tsar Nikolaj II, Tichon Kulikovskij-Romanov was a match during the research of ekaterinburg remains in...
On August 24th, there was a demonstration in front of the Synodal headquarters of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church in Suzdal, Russia. The demonstrators, members of the Moscow Patriarchate, were accompanied by officers of the local police, and...
Protocol about resuming the construction of Moscow Cathedral mosque was signed at the end of July. The building of grandiose complex designed for 4-5 thousands believers, with underground garages and minarets 75 meters high is planned to complete...
Moscow, August 9, Interfax - Victor Lega, assistant professor and head of the Chair of Basic Theology and Apologetics at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Humanitarian University, has compared the academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the authors of...
A youth organization "Free radicals" organized a picket in front of Academy of Sciences of Russia headquarters. The picket took place on July, 31 from 19 to 20 hours, correspondent of "Portal-Credo.Ru" reports.
"Portal-Credo.Ru": Recently TV channel TVZ featured a telecast about Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, to which you belong as a clergyman. This telecast has been strongly negative. What can you say about it?
The newspaper *Pravoslavnaya Rus*, in its issue number seventeen of the present year, published the Decision of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad concerning the establishment of prayerful Eucharistic communion with the group of Old Calendarists headed by Metropolitan...
BUENA, N.J. -- An unlikely combatant in an international legal battle over Russian power and religion, Adelaida Nekludoff, age 83, chants "Lord have mercy," amid flickering candles and the whiff of incense. The only other worshipper at the...
Dmitrij Prigov - the famous Russian poet and artist died in Moscow on July 16 at the age of 66. Funeral service will take place in the Holy Nikolaj church in Tolmachi (Tretyakovskaya gallery church) on Juli 19...
Cash of convent Resurrection Christi in Sherbinskij district, Belgorod area was stolen, correspondent of "Portal-Credo.Ru" reports. The key to the safe is also gone. The novice under suspicion, went to the city, saying that she has a doctor...
IntroductionThe Second Vatican Council, with its Dogmatic Constitution Lumen gentium, and its Decrees on Ecumenism (Unitatis redintegratio) and the Oriental Churches (Orientalium Ecclesiarum), has contributed in a decisive way to the renewal of Catholic ecclesiolgy. The Supreme Pontiffs...
According to sociological polls (The book "New churches, old believes – old churches, new believes" edited by Kimmo Kaarijnen, Dmitrij Furman, M., SPb.; Letnij sad, 2007) in Russia exists what may be called "pro-orthodoxy consensus". The point is...
On Saturday, June 30 Gabriel Lawani was ordained to the diaconate, and on July 1 - to the priesthood by Bishop Photius of Marathon, secretary of the Holy Synod of the True Orthodox Church of Greece (the "Chrysostomites")....
Tajikistan's religious minorities have expressed "deep anxiety" about the country's latest draft Religion Law, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. They fear the draft Law will make it almost impossible for any non-Muslim religious communities to gain legal...
Hindu temples and religious groups in the US are ''reeling from visa denials'' resulting in shortage of temple priests and stalled temple construction projects, a Hindu group has said in an affidavit seeking changes to US immigration rules.
An ailing elderly Erie bishop is being drawn into what could be a new schism in the Russian Orthodox Church.A group that wants to establish a new church authority claims Bishop Daniel of Erie is on their side...
Under the guise of questioning Russian President Vladimir Putin's domestic and foreign policies, Nadia Kizenko ("Church Merger, Putin's Acquisition," Houses of Worship, Taste page, Weekend Journal, May 25) seeks to discredit the church by misrepresenting the restoration of...
June 4, 2007While Astana makes efforts to resolve the crisis around the Hare Krishna community in the Karasai district of Almaty province, the local authorities totally ignore these efforts and methodically extrude the community cutting off electricity and...
Regarding the division which occurred in our Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, I would like to provide a brief clarification on the nature of the transpired event.
The Chancellery of the Russian True Orthodox Church receives more and more requests from ROCOR clergy in regards to receiving an explanation of what needs to be done if anybody from the clergy has the desire to be...
Turkmenistan has today (14 May) jailed a Baptist, Vyacheslav Kalataevsky, for three years in a labour camp, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. The official reason for the jail sentence is illegally crossing the border, after being deported...
Believers of all Christian denominations take part in the campaign of collecting signatures to change the law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations". Christians are collecting signatures in their communities, other churches, on the streets; they also...
A representative of Synod of ROCOR(L) Bishop Michael (Donskoff) of Geneva and Western Europe visited Odessa Diocese of ROCOR(L) on April 25-28. This Diocese is known for its struggle against the union with Moscow Partiarchate, so that the...
A group of 12 Orthodox priests have called on their Church to review its longstanding theological positions toward Jews and the State of Israel, and to excise anti-Semitic passages from its liturgy.
Br Nathanael: Can you tell us about Fr Victor Potapov denying you Holy Communion?Konstantin Preobrazhensky: Two weeks ago I wrote an article published by portal-credo.ru entitled, "Poisonings At The ROCOR." In this article, using written and oral testimonies...
Moscow, April 3, Interfax - The signing of the Act of Canonical Communion, which restores the unity of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate, is a "landmark event", Russian President Vladimir Putin told Patriarch...
Russian police arrested twelve Falun Gong practitioners who were holding a peaceful appeal in front of the Chinese embassy in Moscow on Saturday, March 24, ahead of Chinese leader Hu Jintao's visit.
We, the undersigned clergy, parishioners and friends of the Protection of the Mother of God parish in Rochester, NY are all united in our strong feelings of opposition to the union between the Russian Church Abroad and the...
This is an appeal by the family of Aslan Maskhadov, President of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria, killed by the Russian secret services on 8 March 2005 in the Chechen village of Dojkur-Evl (Tolstoj-Yurt).
Your Eminence Vladyka Laurus,I was recently informed of the All World Russian National Council held in Moscow on March 5th through the 7th hosted by Alexy II of the Moscow Patriarchate. The participants of this Council were the...
