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Eastern Christian countries capable of altering humankind in 10 years – Archpriest Chaplin

by OCP May 15, 2012 News

Moscow, May 14, Interfax – Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia and other Eastern Christian countries are meant to change the entire humankind together, the head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin has said. “Our Christian Orthodox, Eastern Slavic civilization is not the most numerous but it is central because it is [...]

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Church members outraged over Bolshoi’s unorthodox opera

by OCP May 13, 2012 News

Alina Lobzina 12/05/2012 Russia’s famed Bolshoi Theater has had to defend itself from attacks by disgruntled Orthodox Church members demanding that it remove a controversial staging of a classical opera from its repertoire. Believers have called upon Russian Patriarch Kirill “to speak up against this blasphemy and to address the authorities over this matter” in [...]

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Putin sworn in as Russia’s President‎

by OCP May 8, 2012 Featured News

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia made supplicatory prayer service (​​Moleben) at the Annunciation Cathedral on the occasion of the inauguration President Vladimir Putin as the Russian President. May. 7, 2012 – Vladimir Putin has been sworn in as Russia’s president for a third term after four years as prime minister. …

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Church calls on believers to unite for country’s revival

by OCP May 8, 2012 News

Moscow, May 4, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church has urged believers not to cede to pressure and actively participate in the country’s life. “We need a peaceful army of Orthodox Christians – a spiritual, cultural, informative, political army, not sword-wielding, not frightening anyone, but showing the wise, good, unbending, strong-willed force of our people [...]

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Old icon returns to Moscow Convent

by OCP May 7, 2012 News

Photo: RIA Novosti 6/5/2012 Milena Faustova Moscow Time On Sunday, Vladimir Putin, who will become Russia’s president on Monday, together with the head of the Russian Church Patriarch Kirill, took part in a religious procession in Moscow. The procession was held on the occasion of handling an old and very venerated icon of the Mother [...]

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Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos to Visit Orthodox Church of Russia

by OCP May 5, 2012 News

By Areti Kotseli 4/5/2012 Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos will pay a visit to the Church of Russia May 23-30 at the invitation of Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and All Russia. Ieronymos, who will be accompanied by members of the Holy Synod and hierarchs, will visit Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he will [...]

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Sixty-Four Percent of Russians Trust Orthodox Church – Poll

by OCP May 5, 2012 News

04/05/2012 MOSCOW,(RIA Novosti) Russians have more trust in the Russian Orthodox Church in general than in its head Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, according to a survey conducted by the Kremlin-backed pollster Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). The survey, the results of which were published on Friday, said 64 percent of Russians have confidence [...]

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President of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly visits St. Sergius’s Monastery of the Trinity and Moscow Theological Academy

by OCP May 5, 2012 News

On May 1, 2012, St. Sergius’s Monastery of the Holy Trinity and the Moscow Theological Academy had the honour to welcome H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, who was in Moscow for a visit at the invitation of the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute for Oriental [...]

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Patriarch Kirill calls on Bulgarian PM to base policies on Orthodox Christian values

by OCP May 3, 2012 News

Sofia, May 2, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has said he attaches great importance to the fact that Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is an Orthodox Christian. “I sympathize with your Orthodox Christian choice and would like to wish God’s help in your service and that your connection with the Orthodox [...]

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Russian Patriarch awarded honorary degree of University of Library Studies and Information Technology

by OCP April 29, 2012 News

29/4/2012 Sofia. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has been awarded an honorary degree of the University of Library Studies and Information Technology, FOCUS News Agency reported. The degree was presented by the university rector, professor Stoyan Denchev. Patriarch Kirill received also a gift from the university management – a picture of the Russian [...]

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Orthodox Church under attack: Russian Patriarch

by OCP April 24, 2012 Featured News
Members of the Orthodox clergy walk in procession after a call to prayer in support of the Orthodox Church at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow April 22, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Denis Sinyakov

By Alissa de Carbonnel 23/4/2012 (Reuters) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church warned tens of thousands of believers on Sunday they were “under attack by persecutors” on a nationwide day of prayer intended to heal divisions over a protest at the altar by a women’s punk band. At least 40,000 people came to [...]

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65,000 gather in Moscow ‘to pray for Church & defend faith’

by OCP April 23, 2012 Featured News

22/4/2012 Tens of thousands of Orthodox Christians have joined a service outside Moscow’s main church, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, in defense of their faith, sacred objects and the Church itself, following recent numerous attacks on Christian relics. The Sunday service has gathered around 65 thousand worshippers, according to official police data. It comes [...]

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Stars Speak of God as Orthodox Church Prepares to Defend Faith

by OCP April 19, 2012 Featured News

18/04/2012 Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti With Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church facing a wave of criticism from what it has called supporters of “radical liberal values,” a Christian publisher presented on Wednesday a book on the religious beliefs of stars of show business and film. “The Church has always been persecuted,” actor and presenter Boris Korchevnikov, [...]

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On Easter eve Patriarch Kirill urges society to leave behind “the spiritual emptiness”

by OCP April 17, 2012 News

Moscow, April 14, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia congratulated clerics and parish on the coming feast of Easter. “May our behavior, in contradiction to the evil spirit of this age, become the visible affirmation of Eternal Truth. For, although we live today in conditions of social and religious freedom, the striving [...]

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Just 7% of Russians say Pussy Riot girls should not be punished

by OCP April 17, 2012 News

Moscow, April 16, Interfax – Most Russians think that the late February punk-prayer concert staged by the Pussy Riot band at the Christ the Savior’s Cathedral in Moscow is hooliganism and blasphemy, while some see it as a political protest. An opinion poll held by the VTsIOM public opinion research center shows that the action [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church apologises for doctored photo

by OCP April 8, 2012 News

5/4/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church apologised on Thursday for doctoring a photograph of Patriarch Kirill to remove what bloggers said was a luxury wristwatch following accusations that he lives a lavish lifestyle. It responded after eagle-eyed bloggers said an archive photo of the Patriarch on its website showed the reflection of a Breguet watch worth [...]

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Russian Church Says It Is Under Attack for Backing Putin

by OCP April 5, 2012 News

4/4/2012 Reuters Patriarch Kirill says the church is targeted because of its support for Putin. Russia’s Orthodox Church says it is under attack from unspecified “anti-Russian forces” seeking to erode its authority, after it threw its weight behind Vladimir Putin before last month’s presidential election. An unusually strongly worded statement issued Tuesday listed a recent [...]

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Patriarch Kirill is going to donate to charities all money earned in case over the flat in the House on the Embankment

by OCP April 5, 2012 News

Moscow, March 30, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia told about nuances of judicial proceedings connected with his flat in the famous House on the Embankment in downtown Moscow. He has recently met with renowned TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov who cited the Primate’s story on air the Vesti FM radio station. “Suddenly [...]

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Abbot Ephraim to be released on bail

by OCP March 30, 2012 News

30/3/2012 Moscow Times The abbot of the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos in Greece will be released on a 300.000-euro bail after a 3-month imprisonment, local media quoted an Athens court spokesperson as saying on Thursday. Abbot Ephraim is accused of arranging land swaps between the Vatopedi Monastery and the state which are thought to [...]

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Military Churches Ready to Drop From the Sky

by OCP March 30, 2012 News

The Moscow Times 29/3/2012 Russian paratroopers might soon become the most spiritually well-armed part of the Russian military with the rollout of “inflatable church-tents” that can be deposited in a drop zone — but only if the Russian Orthodox Church backs the idea. “If the churches are officially introduced, they might be put on the [...]

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Pussy Riot Hit Back at Church Criticism

by OCP March 28, 2012 News

MOSCOW Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti 27/3/2012 Pussy Riot, the all-female group whose members could face jail time over a “punk prayer” in Moscow’s largest cathedral, have said the country’s powerful Orthodox Church was used as a “weapon” in President-elect Vladimir Putin’s election campaign. “We were deeply saddened that you allowed the Church to become a [...]

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Second version of Metropolitan Hilarion’s ‘St. Matthew Passion” Oratorio was performed at Moscow Conservatoire

by OCP March 23, 2012 News

22/3/2012 On 21 March 2012, the Moscow Synodal Choir conducted by Alexei Puzakov and the Tchaikovsky Large Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev performed the second version of Metropolitan Hilarion’s ‘St. Matthew Passion” Oratorio for reader, soloists, choir and orchestra first night in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire. Metropolitan Hilarion read the texts [...]

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Latvian version of Patriarch Kirill’s book presented in Riga

by OCP March 23, 2012 News

20/3/2012 On 19 March 2012, the Latvian version of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s book ‘Freedom and Responsibility: In Search of Harmony. Human Rights and Personal Dignity’ was presented at the premises of the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Riga. Present at the presentation were Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s [...]

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Pussy Riot Member Invites Church Spokesman to Visit Her in Jail

by OCP March 23, 2012 News

The Moscow Times 22/3/2012 An alleged member of all-female punk group Pussy Riot has invited Orthodox Church spokesman Vsyevolod Chaplin to visit her in jail to hear her opinion on the band’s unauthorized performance in Christ the Savior Cathedral last month. Nikolai Polozov, a lawyer for the three women jailed for their alleged participation in [...]

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Pussy Riot girls charged

by OCP March 21, 2012 News

Moscow, March 13, Interfax – Hooliganism charges have been brought against members of the Pussy Riot punk group over a scandalous action in the Church of Christ the Savior in Moscow, lawyer Nikolay Polozov has told reporters. “My clients Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina have just been indicted for hooliganism under Part 2, Article 213 [...]

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