Plans to construct a Hare Krishna temple in Moscow have sparked off a controversy in Russia where the Orthodox Church dominates and many regard Krishna followers as dangerous sectarians.
According to The New York Times, the Jehovah's Witnesses sect has a 133,000-strong congregation in Russia. Orthodox Church officials believe this to be an overstatement, but they acknowledge that the sect is influential enough in many regions across...
Belgrade, March 27, 2004 - The Diocese of Raska-Prizren has released an updated list of 35 Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries that were destroyed or severely damaged in last week’s outbreak of violence in Kosovo-Metohija.
For Immediate ReleaseMarch 26, 2004MOSCOW—Judge Vera K. Dubinskaya of the Golovinsky Intermunicipal District Court of the Northern Administrative Circuit of the city of Moscow ruled today to liquidate the Moscow Community of Jehovah's Witnesses and to impose a...
A major indicator of what St. Patrick's Day means to Moscow is the Klinskoye Redkoye beer commercial that has been airing on television recently. No faces are seen, just feet and legs clad in Irish costumes pounding out...
Portal-Credo.Ru: What is the reason of the arrest of Father Vasilij Mkalavishvili, the leader of your parishes in Georgia?Bishop Ambrose: His arrest and imprisonment for three months' "preliminary detention" was ordered by a Tbilisi district court last June....
MOSCOW (AP) -- The Supreme Court in Bashkortostan has banned a Church of Scientology center that prosecutors labeled a "health hazard," Interfax reported. The ban in the majority-Muslim region was imposed after prosecutors filed suit claiming the organization...
Oleg Yanushevsky's "Cosmopolitan Icons", an exhibition juxtaposing a series of objects portraying political and mass culture idols as objects of worship, was supposed to run in St. Petersburg's S.P.A.S. gallery for several weeks until March 12th but ended...
On 19 February 2004, in Moscow, a meeting took place between the Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Kirill, and the President of the Pontifical Council...
A top Vatican official arrived Tuesday for sensitive talks with the Russian Orthodox hierarchy, which accuses the Catholic Church of aggressive proselytizing in traditionally Orthodox lands. Just hours before the arrival of Cardinal Walter Kasper, head of the...
Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, is scheduled to travel to Moscow Feb. 16-20, 2004 for a meeting with the Patriarch of Moscow, Alexy II. In anticipation of Kasper's trip, NCR Rome...
Millions of Muslims across Russia began celebrations Sunday for Eid-ul-Adha, or the festival of sacrifice, a major Muslim holiday that symbolizes Ibrahim's willingness to obey God and sacrifice his son Ismail.President Vladimir Putin took the opportunity Sunday to...
The German-funded charity Caritas says it is worried about the country's demographic decline. Its Life Protection project provides women with psychological and material help if they decide to proceed with the pregnancy.Annual Reported Abortions in Russia19884.6 million19903.92 million19952.57...
MOSCOW. Feb 1 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin conveyed greetings to Russia's Islamic community on the Muslim holiday Kurban Bairam. "This holiday is being celebrated amid a continuing revival of spiritual life for millions of Muslims in...
MOSCOW (MT) -- The Russian Orthodox Church has rejected a request to brand chess as the "work of the devil," Itar-Tass reported.A young believer in Yekaterinburg led a campaign and organized a petition claiming chess was the work...
Washington is bureaucratizing the cause of human rights -- for both good and ill, as one can see in the U.S. State Department's latest annual report on worldwide religious freedom, released in the latter half of December. Bureaucracies...
While Russians were celebrating Orthodox Christmas this week, a prominent human rights activist had little cause for rejoicing. He had just been charged with inciting religious hatred and faced up to five years in prison for organizing an...
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit!In its hymns for the Nativity of Christ, the Holy Church says of the incarnation of God the Word: ТHe became man in His love for mankindУ...
To All Faithful Children of the Church of Christ, in the Fatherland and in the Diaspora"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace,good will among men." (Lk. 2:14)Beloved in the Lord, my dear brethren—Archpastors, zealous Pastors...
Heaven and earth today are joined, giving birth to Christ:today God has come to earth and man has ascended to the heavensVerse for the Litiya for theFeast of the Nativity of Christ Beloved in Christ Your Graces the...
Your Holiness! Your letter addressed to the Council of Bishops was not the first step which expressed your positive attitude towards the proper normalization of the relationship of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate and the...
Your Holiness! Your letter addressed to the Council of Bishops was not the first step which expressed your positive attitude towards the proper normalization of the relationship of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate and the...
The United Methodist Church built the church building at 30a Koptevskaya Ulitsa in northern Moscow in 1991, but ownership changed hands in April 2002, according to Justice Ministry documents. The property was re-registered to an N. Ilinov, who...
The United Methodist Church built the church building at 30a Koptevskaya Ulitsa in northern Moscow in 1991, but ownership changed hands in April 2002, according to Justice Ministry documents. The property was re-registered to an N. Ilinov, who...
In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit!The Council of Bishops, having gathered at this time, as had preceding Councils, under the auspices of the Holy Miracle-working Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of...
In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit!The Council of Bishops, having gathered at this time, as had preceding Councils, under the auspices of the Holy Miracle-working Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of...
The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia was held at the Synodal House in New York City on 13-17 December of this year, in the presence of the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother...
The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia was held at the Synodal House in New York City on 13-17 December of this year, in the presence of the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother...
A Church is known by its saints. A new saint of Moscow Patriarchate Archbishop Luke , Voyno-Yasenetsky (1877--1961) was known for his plaudits for tyrant Stalin and also for his occult views in his book "The Spirit, the...
Your Eminence, Metropolitan Laurus, The Most Reverend Archpastors of the RussianChurch Outside Russia:On the eve of the Bishops' Council of the Russian Church Outside Russia, we again make a brotherly appeal to you to combine efforts so that...
Dear-in-Christ, Archpastors, Fathers and Brethren,I ask your Archpastoral and pastoral blessings and prayers.Many of our people have urged me to write this letter as they feel that their voice will not be heard at the All-Diaspora Clergy Conference,...
Archbishop Mark (Arndt) of Berlin and Germany, ruling over the Archdiocese of Great Britain of ROCOR was born in German Democratic Republic, in the territory of Soviet control of the former Reich. Before the tonsure his name was...
Dear in the Lord,Faithful Children of the Russian Church Abroad,At the session of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia at the end of September of this year, it was decided to send a...
The Bezhta version of Luke comes courtesy of the Institute of Bible Translation, a group that has been working for 30 years to provide translations of the Bible into all of the former Soviet Union's 130 languages. IBT...
The Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA) have taken the road of rapprochement but it needs time, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II said commenting on the two-day talks with the ROCA...
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II and clergymen of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA) are discussing ways of rapprochement of the two brotherly churches in the Fatherland in Moscow. The closed meeting is being held...
We, the clergy of the Southern Deanery of the Diocese of New York and Eastern America, gathered at St. Mary of Egypt Russian Orthodox Church in Lilburn, Georgia before the Kursk Root Icon of the All-holy Theotokos on...
Looking over Church law (the Apostolic Rules, those of the Councils and the Fathers, that is to say, the canonical base of the Orthodox Church's legislation), it is not hard to see that the basic - if not...
In connection with the episcopal consecration of an openly gay priest V.Gene Robinson, the Department for External Church Relations is empowered to make a special statement. The Church has always regarded homosexual contacts as a grave sin. There...
Today, the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA) and the Moscow Patriarchate (MP) exist, for historical reasons, as two independent branches of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). The former ROCA has existed since the time of the revolution, of...
