Topic: Russian Orthodox Church
Vladimir Putin on Thursday welcomed to Russia a highly revered Orthodox relic credited with fertility-boosting powers as his country struggles to halt a population decline.The relic venerated by believers as the belt of the Virgin Mary arrived on loan from violence-hit ...
ROME (Reuters) - A senior leader of the Russian Orthodox Church on Monday called on the Vatican to do more to resolve outstanding disputes so that a meeting between Pope Benedict and the Russian Patriarch could take place.In an exclusive interview with ...
MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Inmates in Russia's prisons who face problems including overcrowding, disease and violence also watch too much trashy TV, according to the country's most powerful religious leader.Inmates watch too many shows that romanticize crime and would benefit ...
It?s a documentary about a crotchety octogenarian Danish man who seeks to donate the decrepit castle he owns to the Russian Orthodox Church. (If he?s a member of that religion, or if his ancestry is Russian, it isn?t stated ...
In this economy, a great summer vacation is not on many peoples to do list. At the Dollar Store, grab a red and white checked tablecloth and drape it over the white sheet at an angle, so that the corners of white ...
There can be little doubt that atheism was core to Communism. In 1941, after Nazis had attacked the Soviet Russia, Stalin decided to allow the worship of the Russian Orthodox Church, mainly as a way to strengthen patriotic support for the war ...
The recent discovery of the remains of two missing Romanovs has pitted the Russian Orthodox Church against forensic science By Joshua Hammer . Letters. Indelible Images. As German bombs began falling on Poland in 1939, an American photographer made a fateful decision By ...
Valentin Gribenyuk trudges ahead of me through a birch and pine forest outside Yekaterinburg, Russia, waving oversize mosquitoes from his neck and face. on that day, in the basement of a commandeered house in Yekaterinburg, a Bolshevik firing squad executed Czar Nicholas ...
A Russian court on Monday convicted the organisers of a provocative 2007 art exhibition of inciting hatred, fining them up to 6,500 dollars in a case fiercely criticised by rights activists.Art expert Andrei Yerofeyev and former museum director Yury Samodurov ...
Russian art curators convicted of inciting religious hatred but let go after finesTwo Russian curators who angered the Russian Orthodox Church with an exhibition that included images of Jesus Christ portrayed as Mickey Mouse and Vladimir Lenin were convicted Monday of inciting ...
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Russia Victory Day
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Russia Epiphany
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Funeral of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II in Moscow
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Orthodox Sermon - Parable of the Prodigal ...
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Russian Orthodox Church and Politics Part ...
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Russian Orthodox church elects new leader ...
The Russian Orthodox Church has installed its first leader since ...2009-02-02
