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ENGLISH VERSION: Message. World summit of religious leaders (July 3 – 5, 2006, Moscow)

We, participants in the World Summit of Religious Leaders – heads and delegates of Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, and Shinto religious communities in 49 countries, met in Moscow on the eve of the Group of Eight Summit....

Опубликовано: 05.07.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Whose side are the police on? Pentecostals, Catholics and Baptists are among religious communities to complain recently of police failure to protect them from attacks

Pentecostals, Catholics and Baptists are among religious communities to complain recently of police failure to protect them from attacks or other unwarranted intrusions during services or of police raids to prevent them conducting religious activity – such as...

Опубликовано: 07.06.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: An Open Letter to the Hierarchy of ROCOR. Women excluded from participation the ROCOR Sobor

Dear Metropolitan Laurus, Archbishops and Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia,Christ is Risen! We ask for your blessings and that you hear the concerns of many women of the church. The commencement of the All-Diaspora...

Опубликовано: 21.05.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Bitter rift in UK Orthodox Church

A bitter power struggle is taking place within the UK branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, over a plan to break from Moscow. Parish councillors say they have been expelled for opposing the plan, and that the locks...

Опубликовано: 14.05.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: The Sobor Resolution: A Masterpiece of Ambiguity

The resolution of the ROCOC Sobor published in San Francisco on May 11, 2006 is a masterpiece of ambiguity, and a tissue of deception and lies.It begins: "We, the participants of the IV All-Diaspora Council, having gathered in...

Опубликовано: 13.05.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Russian Orthodox Church in Exile and Mr. Putin. Statement of Board of Directors of The Blessed Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) Memorial Society

Council (Sobor) in May

Опубликовано: 01.05.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Urbi et Orbi message of his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. Easter 2006

Dear Brothers and Sisters!Christus resurrexit! - Christ is risen!During last night’s great Vigil we relived the decisive and ever-present event of the Resurrection, the central mystery of the Christian faith. Innumerable Paschal candles were lit in churches, to...

Опубликовано: 17.04.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Russia joins ecumenical carnaval

By Alexander Soldatov, The Moscow News

Опубликовано: 10.04.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Malkhaz Songulashvili: How Long will the Byelorussians sit on a chair with a nail?

After being arrested in Minsk and deported from Belarus as international terrorists Fr. Basil Kobakhidze and I suddenly noticed that both of us were singing Soviet and communist songs. Both of us were shocked that we were not...

Опубликовано: 06.04.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Address of bishop Daniel of Erie vicar of the Chairman of the Synod of bishops, servicing old-rite believers. To the Clergy and Parishioners of The ROCA on the Threshhold of the IV th Pan-abroad Sobor 2006 in San Francisco

Speaking: Bishop Daniel, Vicar of the First Hierarch of the Church Abroad on Old-Believers Affairs.

Опубликовано: 28.03.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: A New Miracle of Fr. Seraphim (Rose)

When the faithful gathered at the St. Herman Monastery on the twenty-second anniversary of Fr. Seraphim's repose, among them was an American Orthodox convert, Celia Yentzen, who had recently experienced a miraculous healing through Fr. Seraphim's intercessions. Celia...

Опубликовано: 22.03.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Nobel Prize Winner Gives Vladimir Putin Some Educated Advice

...Today, there is no shortage of information as to who supports which political party, who espouses what ideology, and so on and so forth. As far as religion is concerned, however, there is complete silence. The statistics that...

Опубликовано: 20.03.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Four new nuns of ROAC tonsured in St.Petersburg

Four nuns were tonsured on March 10 by Hegumen Gregory in the church of St.Elizabeth in St.-Petersburg.Alevtina Nikinina was tonsured with the name Elizabeth after the Patron of the church. She was born in 1970; she graduated the...

Опубликовано: 13.03.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Russian Islam Comes Out into the Open. Against the backdrop of the "cartoon war," converted Muslims of Russia are closing ranks

In early February, the Milli-Shura (National Council) of the National Organization of Russian Muslims (NORM) took a decisive step to come out of the closet. It reached an association agreement with the Moscow community of converted Muslims, Pryamoi...

Опубликовано: 10.03.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Konstantin Preobrazhensky. Metropolitan Laurus lulls vigilance

President Putin’s flirting with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is kept in strict confidence so that theAmericans would not find out about it, although the Moscow Patriarchate is aware of this flirting and actively participates in...

Опубликовано: 06.03.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Amnesia. Holocaust denial and Gulag denial should be finally seen as the twin evils they are

TWO EVENTS last week starkly illustrate the dilemmas of countries grappling with a terrible past. In Austria, Holocaust denier David Irving received a three-year jail sentence for his public assertions that the Nazis did not carry out a...

Опубликовано: 02.03.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Celebrating Life – a festa da vida. Report of the general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia. WCC 9th Assembly, 14-23 February 2006, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Dear sisters and brothers in Christ.

Опубликовано: 16.02.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Native Faith or Western New-Age. Why is Russian paganism so attractive to Nazis and liberals?

An official map of the Losiny Ostrov national park in Moscow shows a pagan temple - one of about one and a half dozen such temples active in the capital. In all, 17 (religious) pagan organizations are registered...

Опубликовано: 09.02.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Encyclical Letter "Deus Caritas Est" of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI to the bishops, priests and deacons, men and women religious and all the lay faithful on christian love

Introduction and Part I read here.Part II and Cunclusion read here.

Опубликовано: 25.01.2006

ENGLISH VERSION: Urbi et Orbi message of his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. Christmas 2005

"I bring you good news of a great joy … for to you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord" (Lk 2:10-11).Last night we heard once more the Angel’s...

Опубликовано: 26.12.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Russia: Orthodox And Catholics - Heading Toward Reconciliation?

While most Russians will mark Orthodox Christmas on 7 January according to the old Julian calendar, Western Christmas is about to be celebrated on 25 December by Russia's 600,000-strong Roman Catholic community. As a result of continued efforts...

Опубликовано: 23.12.2005

БИБЛИОТЕКА: Дж. Фокс. Книга мучеников. Мученическая смерть архиепископа Кранмера (1556 г.) [протестантизм]

No government official was prepared to explain to Forum 18 News Service why Macedonia's religious minorities are in practice unable to build new places of worship or extend existing ones. "The only permission we can get is to...

Опубликовано: 12.12.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: International Religious Freedom Report 2005. Russia

The Executive Summary consists of three parts. Part I identifies many of the countries where religious freedom is restricted and classifies their actions and policies into five categories. Part II provides examples of nations whose governments have taken...

Опубликовано: 14.11.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Protopriest Michael Ardov. WORDS ON THE PASSING OF ANASTASIA GEORGIEVNA SCHATILOFF (GRABBE). She was consumed with zeal for the Church, for the Truth

I am thinking back to the distant 1970’s, to those stagnant years during the time of Brezhnev. I was a lay person in the Moscow Patriarchate then. Some absolutely amazing documents started to make their way to us....

Опубликовано: 11.11.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Signs of Al Qaeda in deadly Jordan attacks. Amman officials suspect terrorist-leader Zarqawi is behind explosions at three hotels popular with Westerners Wednesday

By Dan Murphy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CAIRO – Three almost simultaneous attacks Wednesday on hotels managed by American companies in Jordan's capital carried the classic markings of terrorist hits by Al Qaeda, or...

Опубликовано: 10.11.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Belarus: will UN decision help religious communities?

Belarus has yet to meet a 12 November deadline, set by a UN committee, for confirming the correction of a religious freedom violation against Hare Krishna devotees, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. In a decision with implications...

Опубликовано: 04.11.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Konstantin Preobrazhensky. Fr Viktor Potapov Feels Mr. Putin was Offended. The parish meeting at the St John the Forerunner Cathedral in Washington was attended by a representative of the Russian Embassy

1. Moscow’s Fake Episcopate

Опубликовано: 19.10.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Nun Martha (Senina). Review of Protopriest George Edelstein, Notes of a Village Priest (Moscow, 2005)

The book of Fr. George Edelstein, the rector of the Resurrection church in the village of Karabanovo, Kostroma diocese in the ROC MP, is a collection of articles from 1988 to 2000 devoted to the inner life and...

Опубликовано: 10.10.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Ninth Congress of ROAC Clergy and Laity Held in Suzdal

The Ninth congress of clergy and laity of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) was held September 3 and 4 in Suzdal, as reported by the Suzdal Diocese Vedomosty.

Опубликовано: 12.09.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Konstantine Preobrazhensky. Laurus & the KGB

Опубликовано: 30.08.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: New president chosen in the ROCOR(V)-TROC (True Russian Orthodox Church, Lazarie branch)

An extraordinary meeting of the Synod of Bishops of a "branch" of ROCOR(V), which had been headed by Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko), took place in the town of Veliky Dal’nik, Odessa province (Ukraine). On July 7th, on the feast...

Опубликовано: 08.08.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Bishop Gabriel (Chemodakov), ROCOR(L): "For most of our flock, it is unclear why we suddenly have a different position toward the Moscow Patriarchate"

Portal-Credo.Ru: Could you comment about the four documents which recently appeared simultaneously on the official sites of the ROCOR(L) and the ROC MP and were worked out conjointly by their commissions on dialogue for unification and approved by...

Опубликовано: 20.07.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: And his lot is among the saints. On the anniversary of the finding of the honourable relics of the holy Hierarch Philaret (Voznesensky)

THE ANGEL OF THE PHILADELPHIAN CHURCH Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours. When they see it, they shall be...

Опубликовано: 13.07.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Metropolitan Kirykos left the "Matthewite" Synod

Metropolitan Kirykos of Mesogea and Lavriotiki was forbidden at the Synod meeting of the "Matthewite" Synod of the TOC on June 17/30 after he refused to present at the discussin of his views. (...)

Опубликовано: 11.07.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Hieromonk Gregory. Seven Dispelled Myths of ROCA(L)

Prior to the publication in June of the documents adopted by the conciliatory commissions, the medium outside of Russia was dominated by several propaganda myths which have now become torn down at a blow. The myths are as...

Опубликовано: 05.07.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: The First–Hierarch of the Russian True–Orthodox Church Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko) Reposed in the Lord

Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko) of Odessa and Tambov, the First–Hierarch of the Russian True–Orthodox Church, reposed in the Lord on June 30, "Portal–Credo.Ru" reports. Archbishop Benjamin (Rusalenko) of Black Sea and Kuban has become the locum tenens of the...

Опубликовано: 03.07.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: The documents worked out at joint sessions of the Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate on a dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad on negotiations with the MP

In accordance with the reached agreement confirmed by the resolutions of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (on April 20, 2005) and the Hierarchical Synod Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (on May 23, 2005) below there are...

Опубликовано: 29.06.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: An encyclical on the moral law of God of the Holy Synod of the Holy Orthodox Church (true-orthodox) in North America

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Throughout her sojourn in this fallen world, the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ - Israel, Old and New -...

Опубликовано: 27.06.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Priest N of St.–Petersburg Diocese of Moscow Patriarchate: “We hoped that the Church Abroad would help us to change the existing situation for the better”

– Portal-Credo.Ru: What is your opinion about the published documents that were elaborated jointly by the Moscow Patriarchate commission for dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (the ROCOR) and the ROCOR (L) commission for negotiations...

Опубликовано: 24.06.2005

ENGLISH VERSION: Interview with bishop Irinarch of Tula and Bryansk in connection with difficulties of ROAC priests in Bryansk

Question: Are there peculiarities in the attitude of the clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate towards ROAC communities in the region and how bitter a fight is there, in your view with the MP administration such the special features...

Опубликовано: 20.06.2005