February 10, 2017 – About 15 to 20 people began to actively take photos during Orthodox worship inside the Isaakevsky Cathedral in St. Petersburg (Russia), which attracted the attention of the church attendees. The picketers proceeded to create a single line on the Western side of the Cathedral, raising placards with individual letters, which read, “The museum belongs to the […]
» Read moreFebruary 10, 2017 – The Patriarch Neophyte has stated that the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is praying for peace in Ukraine, and has expressed support and deep compassion for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) in its time of trial. With the blessing of his Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphriy of Kiev and all Ukraine, the Chief Administrator of the […]
» Read moreFebruary 9, 2017. An actual number of offences with regard to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church exceed those offered by the law enforcement, as reports the Union of the Orthodox Journalists. At the beginning of February the Central Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine published the results of the law enforcement bodies’ activity over the last year. Inter alia, […]
» Read moreFebruary 7, 2017. An ancient miracle-working icon of St. John the Baptist was stolen from Liadova beheading rock monastery named in the night of 6th to 7th of February. It is reported by the UOJ correspondent. Malefactors burgled the door of the temple of “Rejoice and Consolation” Holy Virgin and of all sanctities available there hankered only after St. John […]
» Read moreFebruary 6, 2017. Two churches and four houses were recently attacked by night in the Greek mountain village of Xirovalto in the Pogoni municaplity, near the Greek-Albanian border, 195 miles southwest of Thessaloniki, and other villages§ as reports pravoslavie.ru website. “We will not become slaves in our homes,” is the cry of despair of the few guards living on the […]
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