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ENGLISH VERSION: 35 Orthodox churches, monasteries destroyed or damaged

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.

Опубликовано: 28.03.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow court rules against freedom of worship

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...

Опубликовано: 27.03.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Times: Brother's Keeper

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...

Опубликовано: 20.03.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Bishop Ambrose of Methoni, assistant to Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili, "The methods of Father Vasili Mkalavishvili have changed"

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....

Опубликовано: 19.03.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Mоscow Times. Scientology Ban

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...

Опубликовано: 13.03.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: St. Petersburg Times. Art notes

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...

Опубликовано: 28.02.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Communique on the meeting of Mitropolitan Kirill and Cardinal Walter Kasper

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...

Опубликовано: 24.02.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Times, Catholic Cardinal Kicks Off Visit

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...

Опубликовано: 18.02.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Interview with Jesuit Fr. Robert Taft

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...

Опубликовано: 09.02.2004

ENGLISH VERSION: Moscow Times, Muslims Celebrate Kurban Bairam

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...

Опубликовано: 02.02.2004

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