Orthodox Activists in Russia Bought All Units of LGBT Books to Burn Them with Church's Blessing RF Staff 693 Comments The Anti-Humanity of Darwin's Theory Maria Saevskaya 439 Comments We Are Approaching the End of Comfortable Christianity. How Do We Survive?? Archpriest...
Religious artist Nesterov created the image of "the Russian Christ" through the image of Sergius of Radonezh, a Russian Orthodox Church saint and ascetic. Nesterov dedicated a huge cycle of paintings to him, but considered ‘The Vision to the Youth...’ his best work ever. ‘The Vision to ...
The funeral was held on January 10, 2017, at theAlexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Churchin Copenhagen, Denmark. Dmitri’s coffin was covered with the Romanov flag – black, yellow, and white with a double-headed eagle. Among the wreaths were ones from Queen Margrethe II of Denmark andVladimir...
The Roman Catholic Church was persecuted, with some church buildings torn down and some others handed over to the Russian Orthodox church. New Russian Orthodox churches sprung in the New Towns of the largest cities. The Uniates, regarded as schismatic Orthodoxes, were disbanded altogether. Mikhail...
As it happened, Bohemia adopted the rite of the Latin Church, with the use of Latin, while it was Bulgaria that adopted the Orthodox Slavonic Rite and the Cyrillic alphabet. When the Latin alphabet was adopted for the languages of Catholic Eastern Europe, there was the problem that the ...
The Two-Headed Eagle movement was created by Malofeev in 2017 with the objective of supporting Putin, ridding the country of secularism and returning the Orthodox monarchy to the country, as well as the demolition of Lenin’s mausoleum. Malofeev, the director of Russian Christian nationalist ...
Reaction to the patriarch's use of the phrase Russky mir, which was familiar mainly in its Yeltsin-era political context, was mixed, both inside and outside of Russia. It aroused considerable controversy in Ukraine, where the Greek-Catholic church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kievan...
(Voitishko), head of the information service of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Synodal Department for Religious Education and Catechesis, theRootsprogram is “a kind of prototype of secular ethics that takes regional specifics and traditions into account.” Officials argue that ODNKNR is not an...
“Greek project” ofCatherine II. In it, the Balkan Peninsula was tobe divided between Russia and Austria into spheres of influence and an independentGreek kingdom was to be created.64Russia’s Near East policy was for a long time mostly concerned with the OrthodoxChurch. The support of ...
Nikon was a religious leader who unsuccessfully attempted to establish the primacy of the Orthodox church over the state in Russia. His reforms that attempted to bring the Russian church in line with the traditions of Greek Orthodoxy led to a schism. Nik