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ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Times, Catholic Charity Addresses Birthrate Problems

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...

Опубликовано: 01.02.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Putin greets Muslims on Kurban Bairam

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...

Опубликовано: 01.02.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Times, Chess Not of the Devil

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...

Опубликовано: 31.01.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Times, Setting Sights Higher on Religious Freedom

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...

Опубликовано: 12.01.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Times, Criminal Case Opened Against Head of the Sakharov Museum

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...

Опубликовано: 10.01.2004

He came that we might inherit and share with Him a Тjoy fulfilledУ (Jn. 17: 13).

The day of the incarnation of Christ is the most joyous day in the history of mankind, for Тoday He Who is without beginning beginneth

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...

Опубликовано: 06.01.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Nativity Epistle of Metropolitan Valentine, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church

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...

Опубликовано: 06.01.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Christmas message by Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia (ROC MP)

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...

Опубликовано: 06.01.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Response of the Council of Bishops of ROCOR(L) to Patriarch Alexey II

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...

Опубликовано: 23.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Response of the Council of Bishops of ROCOR(L) to Patriarch Alexey II

Опубликовано: 23.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: "Moscow Times" - Methodists May Lose Church

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...

Опубликовано: 20.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: "Moscow Times" - Methodists May Lose Church

Опубликовано: 20.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Epistle to the Flock from the Council of Bishops of the ROCOR(L)

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...

Опубликовано: 19.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Epistle to the Flock from the Council of Bishops of the ROCOR(L)

Опубликовано: 19.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Press Release from the council of Bishops of the ROCOR(L)

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...

Опубликовано: 19.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Press Release from the council of Bishops of the ROCOR(L)

Опубликовано: 19.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: The Occultism Apology of Archbishop Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky)

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...

Опубликовано: 14.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Address of Patriarch Alexey II to Metropolitan Laurus and the Bishops' Council of the ROCOR(L)

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...

Опубликовано: 11.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Letter of Archimandrite Alexis to Metropolitan Laurus and all faithfull children of ROCOR(V)

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,...

Опубликовано: 05.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Archbishop Mark (Arndt), the key figure in negotiations between ROCOR(L) and MP

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...

Опубликовано: 04.12.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: A Statement from Metropolitan Laurus, the First Hierarch of the ROCOR(L)

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...

Опубликовано: 22.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: MOSCOW TIMES, The First Book in Bezhta Is a Gospel

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...

Опубликовано: 22.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Delegation of the ROCOR(L) asked Alexis II to forgive their critic of the Moscow Patriarchy

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...

Опубликовано: 21.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Patriarch Alexis II, clergymen of Russian Orthodox Church Abroad discuss rapprochement

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...

Опубликовано: 19.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Resolution of the Southern Deanery, ROCOR(L)

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...

Опубликовано: 18.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Letter of Bishop Daniel (ROCOR(L))

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...

Опубликовано: 18.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: "The Church Cannot Approve of the Perversion of Human Nature Created by the Creator Himself" The Statement of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate

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...

Опубликовано: 18.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Yurii Shidlovsky, Chairman of the Board for the Welfare of ROCA: Thoughts On the Meeting Between ROCA and the MP

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...

Опубликовано: 17.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Fourteen ROCOR(L) priests addressed Metropolitan Laurus

Fourteen priests, belonging to the Eastern American eparchy of the Russian Church Abroad, addressed Metropolitan Laurus and the members of the Sobor, expressing their concern over the "Blitzkrieg swiftness of developing events," listing these, as follows:"The beginning of...

Опубликовано: 17.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Times - Hare Krishnas and A Doomed Temple

Worship for Moscow's 30,000 Hindus and Hare Krishna devotees could be under threat, as the city's only Hare Krishna temple is to be demolished to make way for a luxury high-rise block...Moscow Times В сюжете:11 июня 2012, 14:12...

Опубликовано: 13.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Vladimir Putin to promote "Christian unity"

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he aims to promote Christian unity when he visits John Paul II Nov. 5, Zenit reports."I believe that my objective is to foster the unification of Christianity taking the opportune steps and not...

Опубликовано: 12.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: A Delegation of the ROCOR will be in Moscow Nov. 17-24

A delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, consisting of Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany, Archbishop Hilarion of Australia, Bishop Kirill of San Francisco and the Western United States, Proto-priest Nikolai Artemov and Proto-priest Peter Holodny,...

Опубликовано: 08.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Monastery received to the OCA

Metropolitan Herman (Orthodox Church in America) received two monastic priests and three novices from the former Eastern Rite Catholic Monastery of the Holy Cross, OCA Communications reports. With the acceptance of the monastery and its brotherhood into the...

Опубликовано: 06.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Times - Only Werewolves in Epaulets on Halloween

"We don't have a culture of carnival, but this is a great excuse for fun," said Natasha Beshenny, a DJ and events manager at Justos, saying it is one of the club's biggest nights. "It's an excuse to...

Опубликовано: 03.11.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Priest Andrei Berman. On the Crisis in the Russian Orthodox Church

In the year 2000 the Russian Orthodox Church solemnly marked the two thousand year jubilee of Christianity. Solemn services were carried out. The Council of Bishops, which canonized numerous New Martyrs, published the "Fundamental Social Concepts of the...

Опубликовано: 28.10.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Publick notice of the Sisterhood of Monastery Saint John the Baptist regarding their eviction from the monastery

(...)Among the civilians who came with the clergy, there were some suspicious characters. As soon as thay found out that father Akakije was hiding they turned towards the forest above the monastery. They were armed with chains with...

Опубликовано: 20.10.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Putin’s sticks and carrots

The relations of Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, with church can hardly be called simple. But there’s a fact: there are some. During Yeltsin’s reign, you could never find a mention of any official President’s attitude towards...

Опубликовано: 13.10.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: The Appearance of the Cross Near Athens in 1924

In 1925, on the eve of the feast of the Exaltation of the All-Honorable and Life-giving Cross of our Savior, 14 September according to the Orthodox Church calendar, the All-night Vigil was served at the Church of St....

Опубликовано: 30.09.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Patriarchy hopes for reunion with Russian Orthodox Church Abroad

The Moscow Patriarchy hopes that a union with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad is still possible, Interfax reports. "I believe that God will bring us to unity, especially because the historic causes of the split are over: the...

Опубликовано: 29.09.2003

ENGLISH VERSION: Communiqie on the Meeting of Metropolitan Laurus, Members of the Synod of Bishops ROCOR and President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir V. Putin

A meeting took place in the Consulate of the Russian Federation in New York on 24 September between the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus, members of the Synod of...

Опубликовано: 26.09.2003