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Holy Trinity Monastery to open its doors to the public

by OCP May 11, 2012 News
Holy Trinity Monastery, on Robinson Road in Jordanville, will have an open house on Saturday, May 19.

By Stephanie Sorrell-White GateHouse News Service 9/5/2012 Jordanville, N.Y. —Holy Trinity Monastery will open its doors to the public later this month to educate people on their history and the Russian Orthodox faith. “It’s the first time ever we’ve had an open house,” said Protodeacon Victor Lochmatow on Tuesday. “We’ve been talking about the need [...]

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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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Priests are people, too

by OCP April 27, 2012 News

© RIA Novosti. Iliya Pitalev Marc Bennetts 26/04/2012 Russia’s Orthodox Church has been at the center of a storm of controversy of late – from Pussy Riot’s anti-Putin “punk prayer” in Moscow’s largest cathedral to the comical “now you see it, now you don’t” saga of Patriarch Kirill’s luxury watch. Things have gotten so heated [...]

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Priest hopes to start Orthodox church in area

by OCP April 24, 2012 News
Father Andrew Winters was ordained in the Western Rite Orthodox Christian Church in March.

By: MELISSA HALL, Winston-Salem Journal Journal , Winston-Salem Journal 24/4/2012 Starting a new church is not easy, but with patience and love, it can happen, says Father Andrew Winters, a priest with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. He is trying to bring one of the oldest forms of Christianity — the Western Rite [...]

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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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Outremont bans annual Eastern Orthodox parade

by OCP April 8, 2012 Featured News
Michael Metni and his St. Nicholas church will be forced to suspend its longstanding parade tradition next week, following a ruling that sprouted from a dispute between the borough of Outremont and the local Hasidic community.

7/4/2012 MONTREAL — Eastern Orthodox worshipers celebrate their holiest days of the year next week but parishioners at one Russian Orthodox Church in Outremont won’t be allowed to hold their procession planned for next Saturday night. That’s because the borough of Outremont has banned parades and processions, including those for Eastern Orthodox Easter. The ban [...]

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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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Russian Patriarch Says Punk Band ‘Desecrated’ Church

by OCP March 26, 2012 News
Yekaterina Samutsevich, a member of the punk band Pussy Riot, appears in Tagansky District Court, Moscow.

25/3/2012 Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill says a female punk band desecrated the Cathedral of Christ the Savior when they stormed the church and performed. Members of the band Pussy Riot said the action on February 4 was to protest the patriarch’s support for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin who won reelection as president on March [...]

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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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Roman Catholic, Orthodox leaders reach accord on reconciliation between Poland and Russia

by OCP March 19, 2012 News

16/3/2012 Representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian have reached agreement on a joint statement calling for reconciliation between the people of Russia and Poland: a historic agreement on an issue that has caused enormous friction between the two countries and the two churches. The joint statement, which is the product of two [...]

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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 Election Sparks Debate In Orthodox Church

by OCP March 14, 2012 News

By Sophia Kishkovsky 13/3/2012 Vladimir Putin’s election to a third term as Russian president has spurred debates about civil society and church-state relations within the Russian Orthodox Church since charges of vote fraud set off mass protests following last December’s parliamentary elections. Andrei Desnitsky, a theologian who supports demands for fair elections, said that growing [...]

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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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Russian punk band Pussy Riot branded as ‘sinners’ by Orthodox church

by OCP March 13, 2012 Featured News

Miriam Elder in Moscow 12/3/2012 Church spokesman attacks group as activists mount campaign to free two band members arrested after protest at cathedral. The Russian Orthodox church has called feminist punk band Pussy Riot “sinners”, their concerts a “boorish, arrogant and aggressive” challenge to Christians. Now activists in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk have hung [...]

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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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Paris Mayor Calls Design for Orthodox Church ‘Mediocre’

by OCP March 3, 2012 News

2/3/2012 PARIS — Paris Mayor Bernard DelanoС described a Russian Orthodox church to be built along the Seine River as “hodgepodge architecture,” not worthy to be near the Eiffel Tower. DelanoС said the project, a gleaming white church with five golden domes topped by a glass roof linking it to a spiritual and cultural center, [...]

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Dr. Vladimir Gorbik to Lead Choral Master Class at St. Vladimir’s Seminary

by OCP February 28, 2012 News

27/2/2012 [SVOTS Communications, Yonkers, NY] An unprecedented Master Class and Choral Workshop, led by Dr. Vladimir Gorbik—a renowned teacher of the Russian Orthodox sacred music tradition, and a leading practitioner of sacred choral music in Russia today—will be held at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, Yonkers, NY from June 25–29, 2012. Dr. Gorbik will instruct participants in [...]

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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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Religious Leaders Back Putin For President

by OCP February 10, 2012 News

9/2/2012 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took a “vacation day” on February 8 to meet as a presidential candidate with religious leaders at the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, where the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, characterized Putin’s time in charge of Russia as a “miracle.” The patriarch told Putin religious leaders wanted [...]

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