May 29, 2017. The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church recently finished a session at the Patriarchate of Peć and Belgrade, held on May 14 to 24 under the chairmanship of Patriarch Irinej. The bishops discussed many issues concerning, first of all, the Church’s mission in modern society, and the problems of the spiritual revival of the nation, reports Sedmitza. […]
» Read moreMay 29, 2017 – The news channel has once again made an error when filming a defamatory program about the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP). They mixed up the photos of the clergy in the video clip. During the May 27 video clip entitled “Ukrainian sensations. Behind God’s bosom”, the news channel claimed that the wife of Vitaly Kosovksy, […]
» Read moreMay 25, 2017 – Two assailants with a past criminal history have been arrested for a series of thefts in Orthodox Churches in the Bryansk area. Upon arrest, the law enforcement agencies seized two out of five icons, stolen from the Orthodox Church of Mitrophan Voronezhsky, in the village of Rybchevsk. An investigation under article 158 (“Theft”) of the Russian […]
» Read moreMay 25, 2017 – A number of hierarchs throughout the world have expressed their opposition to the two bills recently proposed in Ukraine, that would significantly hinder, if not forbid, the activity of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Among the vocal hierarchs have been several primates of Local Churches, as well as local hierarchs. The first bill, No. […]
» Read moreMay 23, 2017 – The prayer service under the walls of the Verkhovna Rada caused a flood of fakes, as reports UOJ. The Ukrayinska Pravda published one of them, reports Archpriest Alexander Bakhov, the Head of the Legal Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP). “After the prayer service under the Verkhovna Rada, various “sensations” or fakes appeared […]
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