The dialogue regarding the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church and the appointment of its exarchs to Ukraine for this purpose, has resulted in opposition from the Moscow Patriarchate and their break in concelebrating...
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church seems on the verge of achieving independent status, a development straining ties between the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Moscow. Earlier this month, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople dispatched two envoys to meet with...
Within the framework of the preparations for the granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has appointed as its Exarchs in Kiev His Excellency Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon from the United States, and...
More than 50 Jehovah's Witnesses are now facing criminal prosecution for exercising their right to freedom of religion and belief. Law enforcement agencies carried out yet more armed raids, searches, and arrests in a further five Russian regions...
A Muslim in Dagestan has received the longest yet known prison term for meeting to read the works of late Turkish theologian Said Nursi. Ilgar Aliyev was sentenced on 28 May to six years' jail and two following...
The Holy and Sacred Synod, under the chairmanship of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, concluded its regular session, which took place between Thursday, April 19th, and Friday, April 20th. All the items on the agenda were reviewed and...
Executive Director of the St. Gregory the Theologian Foundation and permanent member of the Committee for Old Believer Parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate Leonid Sevastianov has proposed Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, the Chairman of the Department for...
On December 11, 2017, "Vladimirskie Vedomosti," the official publication of the Administration and the Legislative Assembly of Vladimir Province in Russia, published a defamatory article entitled, rather confusedly, "A Lie about True Orthodoxy", against the Russian Orthodox Autonomous...
"Portal-Credo.Ru": Please briefly tell us about the Holy Orthodox Church in North America. How many parishes are under it now, how many bishops and priests does it have, and what is it like in its external aspect? Metropolitan...
Dear Readers, Our website recently marked its fifteenth birthday. Its design, which has hardly changed over these years, has become outdated. Reading it on mobile devices is not easy. Our software, which now runs with major errors, is...
But anyway, he has no time to relax: the hype in liberal circles about violation of human rights in Turkey grows bigger while the voters are expecting to see the results of the given promises. Supporters (51,4%) want...
May 2017 marked the tenth year of illegal detention of the Canonical Patriarch Abune Antonios of Eritrea. His Holiness Abune Antonios is the 3rd Patriarch of the ancient Eritrean Orthodox Church. The OCP Secretariat news briefing stated that...
Following in the steps of our pioneering and saintly Fathers at the Synod of Petrograd 1917 (the centenary of which falls today), and at the Congresses of 1930, 1933, 1950 and 1970; Heeding the words of Pope Benedict...
The Russian Greek Catholic Global Congress took place in San Felice del Benaco, Italy, from 6th to 9th of June 2017. The Congress marked the centennial anniversary of the first Synod of the Russian Greek Catholic Church in...
Dear Co-brothers, In the nineteenth century, when the Russian Catholicism became a significant religious phenomenon, the Orthodox were highly perplexed. However, the main reason of this perplexing was the fact that the Orthodox did not recognise well themselves....
The original spelling is preserved Meeting together in plenary session for the first time after 100 years, clergy and laity of the Russian Byzantine Catholic Church from 5 continents join in congress today at the Sanctuario della Madonna...
Russian authorities never had warm feelings towards Jehovah’s Witnesses. A different interpretation of numerous Scripture passages is one of the things setting them apart from the Russian Orthodox Church. At best, during the past century Jehovah’s Witnesses were...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visited the deposed Patriarch Irenaios of Jerusalem for the first time during his visit to Jerusalem March 22. Bartholomew arrived in Jerusalem to attend the consecration of the newly-renovated Edicule over the Tomb of the...
Prosecutions are continuing across Russia under severe restrictions on sharing beliefs (commonly and misleadingly called the "law on missionary activity") which came into force in July 2016. The first known deportation of a foreigner for allegedly violating the...
On the feast of the Saint and Great Martyr Theodore of Tyre, 17 February 2016, the day on which His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa celebrates his name day, a festive Divine...
Thirteen months after his December 2015 arrest by the FSB security service, the trial of 42-year-old Muslim Yevgeny Kim began yesterday (25 January) in Blagoveshchensk in the Far Eastern Amur Region, Forum 18 has learned. Kim is charged...
New restrictions on foreign religious travel and more explicit provisions banning and punishing the production or distribution of literature about religion in Kazakhstan without undergoing the compulsory state censorship come into force in early January, Forum 18 notes....
As prosecutions continue across Russia under punishments for sharing of beliefs (commonly called the "law on missionary activity") which came into force in July, confusion and inconsistency persist. A wide range of incidents has resulted in charges against...
I. A person is referred to or is indicated by his name, but is not identical with his name. Peter is not the name “Peter”. And God is not the name “God” or “Jesus” or “Wisdom” or anything...
A procedure to seize the Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God “na Bozhedomke” [“in the potter’s field”] in Yaroslavl' (late seventeenth, early eighteenth century) from the jurisdiction of the local religious organization, the Russian...
The author of this article Mr. Thomas Bezas has served in the Department of Defense, U.S. Congress, and the Hellenic Orthodox Traditionalist Church of America’s Metropolitan Council (under Metropolitan Demetrius). This election is not about personal scandal, or...
I am writing to bring your attention to a shocking violation of basic human rights that has recently occurred in Russia. On September 6, 2016, the headquarters of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) in Suzdal were raided...
August 24/September 6, 2016 Saint Cosmas of Aetolia Beloved Clergy and Faithful of the Holy Orthodox Church in North America, I would like to share with you some alarming news that I received from Russia concerning the continued...
The search that was begun this morning (September 6) in the Synodal Building of ROAC in Suzdal is still underway, reports correspondednt of "Portal-Credo.Ru". In the course of the search, computers and other electronics have been impounded, a...
In February 2014, Russia began its military intervention in Ukraine when its forces occupied Crimea. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262, adopted on March 27, 2014, and entitled “Territorial Integrity of Ukraine,” states the Autonomous Republic of Crimea...
In February 2014, Russia began its military intervention in Ukraine when its forces occupied Crimea. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262, adopted on March 27, 2014, and entitled “Territorial Integrity of Ukraine,” states the Autonomous Republic of Crimea...
Congregations of St. George Church in the town of ?a?ak (Serbia) and Dormition Home Church in the village of Bukovica (Bosnia and Herzegovina) were admitted to the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) by Andrei (Maklakov), Archbishop of Pavlovskoye...
The blessed land of Sakartvelo, named “Gruzia" (Georgia) by the Russians, lies at the meeting point of ancient cultures and at the crossroads of civilization routes from East to West and from South to North. Its flamboyancy and...
For the first time in history, two True Orthodox Churches in Russia have officially declared recognition of each other’s Mysteries. The hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Russia (under Metropolitan Damascene) and the Bishops’ Conference of the Russian...
From June 16 to 26, 2016, the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church convened on the Greek island of Crete, chaired by His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch. This Council was held subsequent to decisions of the...
There is great dissension within the Orthodox Christian community around the globe. Four out of fourteen autocephalous churches, and the Georgian among them, have chosen to boycott the Holy Council which will be held in Greece. Russia was...
Moscow Helsinki Group has traditionally been focusing on the defense of the rights of the faithful subjected to persecution in both the Soviet Union and the present-day Russia. The current situation is aggravated by the fact that the...
The dispute between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) over the right to own the relics of the Saints Euphymios and Euphrosynia of Suzdal that ended in 2012 after the confiscation of...
The sole remaining historical church in use by faithful of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) in the Vladimir region, the Church of St. George the Trophy-bearer in the village of Krapivye, Suzdal district, has been taken away...
The draft document of the Pan-Orthodox Council is entitled "Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World". We begin by considering the title of the document. This title promotes, as an assumption, an idea...
