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Russian Orthodox Church criticizes dissemination of opposition leaflets in Christ the Savior Cathedral

by OCP May 3, 2012 News

Moscow, May 2, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church considers the dissemination of leaflets on a church territory inappropriate and calls for respecting the sanctity of the place. It was reported earlier that unidentified people had thrown out leaflets on the territory of Christ the Savior Cathedral, calling on parishioners to join a protest rally [...]

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Duma to guard Christianity: MPs battle ‘evil’ ideologies

by OCP April 14, 2012 Featured News

13/4/2012 Russian legislators have set up a group to protect traditional Christian values and fight “aggressive liberalism,” secularism, violence, and drug, alcohol and gambling addiction. Put forward by Communist MP Sergey Gavrilov and a deputy from the United Russia party, Sergey Popov, the idea received approval from the Russian Orthodox Church leadership, Interfax reports. The [...]

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Babruysk Eparchy of Russian Orthodox Church suggests canonizing Russian poet Pushkin`s granddaughter

by OCP April 14, 2012 Featured News

13.04.2012 The Babruysk Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church has started gathering materials related to a granddaughter of great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin who it believes should be canonized. Natalya Vorontsova-Velyaminovna (1859—1912) lived with her husband in what is now the village of Dubawka near Babruysk. She together with her husband initiated and financed the [...]

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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 Orthodox Church of Pakistan Requesting Help

by OCP March 30, 2012 Featured News

The Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan 30/3/2012 Visit Russian Orthodox Mission Facebook Page The Russian Orthodox Mission in Pakistan has no church building. There are presently 174 faithful, and community is growing day by day. The space for worship is arranged in a courtyard. Tents and carpets for faithful are to be provided as a [...]

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For Russian Orthodox Church, cross ban in workplace is a form of totalitarianism

by OCP March 28, 2012 News

Nina Achmatova 03/27/2012 RUSSIA – GREAT BRITAIN Metropolitan Hilarion criticises the decision of the British government to defend ban on religious symbols in the workplace before Strasbourg court. Russian priest says one of her parishioners was fired for wearing a cross that was not visible. Moscow (AsiaNews) – The Moscow Patriarchate deplores the ban in [...]

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Roman Catholics continue accusing Russian Orthodox Church of Collaborating with Communist Regimes

by OCP March 24, 2012 Featured News

24/3/2012 Ecumenical relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Eastern-rite Ukrainian Orthodox Church are being stymied because the Moscow patriarchate will not admit its culpability for cooperating with Stalinist regime.The Moscow patriarchate’s unwillingness to acknowledge moral responsibility for cooperating in the persecution is “a serious obstacle to the development of mutual relations. The ability [...]

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Madonna takes on Russian Orthodox Church over gay rights

by OCP March 24, 2012 News

By Paul Carsten 23/3/2012 The singer, proclaiming herself a “freedom fighter”, vowed to challenge a new law in the city of St Petersburg which prohibits the “propaganda of homosexuality and paedophilia among minors”. This “propaganda”, according to the bill, threatens to “damage the health, moral and spiritual development of the underaged.” Madonna, who is planning [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church recommends Berezovsky to form Antichrist Party

by OCP March 21, 2012 News

Moscow, March 19, Interfax – Businessman Boris Berezovsky may be successful in the establishment of an Antichrist party, the Moscow Patriarchate believes. “I am glad that Boris Abramovich is not the first person proposing to establish a party based on Christian or Orthodox values. There are six organizing committees of similar parties already. Hopefully, this [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church does not have property in Bulgaria: hieromonk

by OCP March 19, 2012 News

17/3/2012 Sofia. The Russian Orthodox Church does not have property in Bulgaria, hieromonk Zotik Gaevski, a secretary for the Russian Patriarch in Bulgaria, said in an interview with FOCUS News Agency, commenting on recent media reports in Bulgaria that the Russian church wanted to be independent on the Bulgarian territory. Hieromonk Zotik Gaevski vehemently refuted [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church: Ban homosexuality ‘propaganda’ among minors

by OCP March 13, 2012 Featured News

By Fred Weir, Correspondent 12/3/2012 The powerful Russian Orthodox Church wants the Duma to follow regional governments that have banned ‘homosexual propaganda aimed at minors.’ St. Petersburg enacted such a law last week. A controversial new law enacted in St. Petersburg and three other Russian regions, aimed at banning “homosexual propaganda aimed at minors,” has [...]

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People’s choice of Putin is wise – Russian Orthodox Church

by OCP March 6, 2012 News

Moscow, March 5, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate supports the choice the majority of Russians made in favor of Vladimir Putin in the March 4 election. “The choice of the majority of people is obvious; this is a display of wisdom, seriousness and true care for the country and one’s near. Our people are not [...]

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Russian Patriarch Arrives in Bulgaria for Easte

by OCP February 27, 2012 News

26/2/2012 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill is to visit Bulgaria in April around the Easter holiday. The new was announced Saturday by the Bulgarian Holy Synod. While in the country, Kirill will meet with President, Rosen Plevneliev, Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and the Speaker of the Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva. He will [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church denies pratriarch’s involvement in business projects

by OCP February 22, 2012 News

21/2/2012 MOSCOW – The Russian Orthodox Church has flatly denied the media publications stating that Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill traded in tobacco and oil in the 1990s and made billons on it. The synodal information department said in a release issued on Monday that such publications “are false and deliberately defame the [...]

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church attend Prime Minister Putin’s meeting with leaders of traditional religious communities in Russia

by OCP February 10, 2012 News

On 8 February 2012, presidential nominee Vladimir Putin, currently Russian Prime Minister, met with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and with leaders of traditional religious communities in Russia. The meeting, initiated by the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, took place at the official Patriarchal residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery. As [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church Opens in Pakistan

by OCP February 9, 2012 Featured News

The Russian Orthodox church of Pakistan 9/2/2012 St.Micheal the Archangels Russian Orthodox Mission in Pakistan Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan- Facebook Page Coptic Orthodox Church of Pakistan – Facebook Page Greek Orthodox Church in Pakistan- Website Read the OCP Article titled – Orthodox Churches in the Indian Sub Continent and South East Asia This is [...]

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Putin promises to protect Christianity Worldwide

by OCP February 8, 2012 Featured News

8/2/2012 Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has promised to make the protection of repressed Christians in foreign countries one of his foreign policy priorities if he becomes president again. When Putin met with the representatives of Russia’s traditional confessions in Moscow’s main cathedral on Wednesday, the representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church told him that Christians [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church Canonizes New Martyr

by OCP February 7, 2012 Featured News
St. New Martyr Alexander Schmorell

7/2/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has canonized Russian national Alexander Schmorell, a native of Orenburg, who was executed by the Nazi regime in 1943 for organizing an anti-fascist student group called the White Rose, the Church Bulletin publication reported. The ceremony to glorify St. Alexander of Munich, who was 25 yeas old [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church calls for more transparent NGOs

by OCP February 4, 2012 News

Moscow, February 3, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate believes that the activity of nongovernmental noncommercial organizations (NGOs) in Russia should be highly transparent. “At least we need to ensure that all data concerning NGO financing from abroad be open for publication,” head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said [...]

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Russian Church remains the most dynamically growing religious organization in Russia

by OCP February 1, 2012 News

Moscow, February 1, Interfax – According to the data on registered religious organizations of January 1, 2012, the Russian Orthodox Church remains a leader for dynamic growth, director of the Center of Religions Geography at the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Roman Silantyev told Interfax-Religion. “In 2011, the share of organizations of the [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church Gathers Aid for Debt-Ridden Greece

by OCP January 26, 2012 Featured News

26/1/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church has started a solidarity aid campaign, gathering funds for fellow orthodox Greece, which has been plagued by a severe financial crisis. Russian Patriarch Kirill has blessed the collection of donations in all orthodox churches across Russia. Thursday Patriarch Kirill met with chair of Greek conservative party New Democracy Antonis Samaras [...]

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Abbas promises to return everything to Russian Orthodox Church in Palestine

by OCP January 23, 2012 News

Moscow, January 23, Interfax – Head of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas has expressed readiness to continue the return of property to the Russian Orthodox Church. “We believe that everything that used to belong to the Russian Orthodox Church in Palestinian territories should be returned to it. Our courts are now handling one or [...]

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The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad can lose its main building in New York

by OCP January 20, 2012 News

New York, January 19, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad strive to preserve ownership of its headquarters on Park Avenue in New York City. ROCOR is facing a financial crisis that can result in losing the building. As was noted in a statement posted on the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad website, in order for [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church responds to Berezovsky’s address to Patriarch

by OCP January 19, 2012 News

Moscow, January 17, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate has expressed skepticism about the address issued by businessman Boris Berezovsky to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. “On one hand, it may seem pleasant that Boris Abramovich is suggesting that the Church should increase its role in the events taking place in Russia. However, on [...]

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Russia Museum Controversy : No place for art in house of God

by OCP January 14, 2012 News

13/1/2012 One of Russia’s leading museums face the danger of being thrown out to the street due to its conflict with the Russian Orthodox Church. Perm / NationalTurk – Perm State Art Gallery has occupied Perm’s Holy Transfiguration Cathedral for nearly one century. But now Perm diocese wants to return unto God that which is [...]

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