Category Archives: Russia

An Orthodox monastery on fire for the third time in Russia

November 3, 2015. The firefighters managed to extinguish the fire in Perm in the monastery of Our Lady of Kazan (Russia), as the website prichod reports. The fire was completely extinguished. 36 persons and 13 vehicles participated in the rescue operation. There were no victims or injured people but the monastic building was partially damaged. According to some local media, […]

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An Orthodox priest was killed in Russia

October 30, 2015. The Hieromonk Roman Perov, rector of the Church of Protection of Mother of God in the village Puzevo of Buturlinovsky district of Voronezh region (Russia) was killed, as the website pravmir reports. A young man who came in the church in order to discuss about its renovation killed the priest. The motivation of the crime was the […]

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Desecration of the Orthodox worship place in Russia

October 6, 2015. Police ivestigation started after the destruction of the worship cross near the construction site of an orthodox church in a village Loparskoye (Mourmansk region, Russia), as reports FlashNord information agency. The wooden cross was cut down with an axe. The press service of the regional Department of Internal Affairs confirmed that they have already identified the attacker […]

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill sends messages to Presidents of Russia and Ukraine on the eve of the Day of Baptism of Russia

27 July, on the eve of the celebrations marking the millennium of the demise of the Holy Prince Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent identical messages to the President of the Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir Putin, and the President of Ukraine, Mr. Petr Poroshenko, in which he expressed his deep concern over the situation […]

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