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February 20, 2017 – Believers of the Kornirovka ( Nizhny Novgorod region) have had to face administrative barriers from the local authorities. They are demanding the demolition of a chapel, which a local resident built on top of a holy water source. Before the October Revolution, this terrain had a pre-existing church, which a man restored at his own expense. […]

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 […]

January 13, 2017 – Experts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation have observed a campaign of intolerance aimed at Orthodox Christianity. A message was posted on the social media site “VKontakte” with the aim of insulting the feelings of believers. This situation is described in the reply report of the claim of the “Orthodox Christian […]

January 9, 2017. On the island of Vera, located on Lake Turgoyak, Chelaybinsk region on the eve of Orthodox Christmas, the worship cross was destroyed. The metal base, installed on the rocky outcrop, was cut off, and the cross disappeared, as reports ura.news.   The press service of the Chelyabinsk diocese immediately sent a representative, father Alexei Ermolyuk, who confirmed that the […]

September 26, 2016. Security officials have begun an inspection on the territory of Danilov Monastery in southern Moscow following an anonymous message about an explosive device placed somewhere within the monastery, as reports pravoslavie.ru. “There was an anonymous call of a bomb threat and an investigation is underway,” stated the agency source. According to him there was no evacuation of […]