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Museum Workers Protest Removal of 14th-Century Icon
Toropets :: Russia | 1 day ago
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Petersburg Times The Russian Museum�s Toropets icon of the Virgin Mary was secretly delivered to a newly built church in an elite gated community in the Moscow Oblast on Thursday, despite strong resistance from a number of the museum�s experts. �We kept...
Tags: Irina Shalina, Alexander Nevsky Church, Ivan Karlov, Russian Culture Ministry, Blessed Virgin of Toropets, Russian Museum, Vladimir Gusev, century icon, icon willing, St. Petersburg Times, Russia, Toropets, Russian culture, Sacramentals, Eastern Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Christian iconography, Russian Orthodox Church, Icon
Russia, Vatican establish diplomatic relations
Moscow :: Russia | 1 day ago
Credibility Russia and the Vatican have agreed to establish full diplomatic relations, ending long-standing tensions, the Kremlin announced Thursday after President Dmitry Medvedev met Pope Benedict XVI. "President Medvedev told Pope Benedict XVI that he had signed...
Tags: Russian Orthodox Church, Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, Dmitry Medvedev, diplomatic relations, president dmitry, medvedev told, told pope, Russia, Moscow, Politics, Religion Belief, Christianity in Europe, Foreign relations of the Holy See, Pope Benedict XV, Vatican City, Gazprom, Pope John Paul II, Medvedev, Holy See, Foreign relations of Venezuela, Theocracies, Holy See ￢ﾀﾓ Russia relations
Medvedev to meet with pope
Moscow :: Russia | 9 days ago
Credibility Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans a brief working visit to the Vatican next Thursday for talks with Pope Benedict XVI, a spokesman said. Medvedev said earlier that Moscow planned to improve ties with the Vatican. Relations have been strained in...
Tags: Dmitry Medvedev, Russia, Moscow, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, Religion Belief, Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill I of Moscow, Christianity in Europe, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope, Orthodox Church, Eastern Christianity, East￢ﾀﾓWest Schism, Medvedev, Vladimir Putin
A History of 20th-Century Russia, Warts and All
Moscow :: Russia | 10 days ago
Credibility Retailing at the rough equivalent of $20 a volume and titled “History of Russia. XX Century,” the books try to rise above ideologically charged clashes over Russia’s historical memory. They are critical both of czarist and Communist Russia, and incorporate...
Tags: Russian Orthodox Church, United Russia, russians orthodox, Mr. Zubov, Poland, Stalin, Russia, Moscow, Zubov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Putin, Heads of government of the Soviet Union, Marxist theorists, German Russians
Faith leaders call for calm as murdered priest is buried
Moscow :: Russia | 12 days ago
Credibility A murdered Russian Orthodox priest was laid to rest in Moscow yesterday, amid fears of rising religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in the country. Father Daniil Sysoyev was shot dead inside his own church last week, in a killing that many...
Tags: Daniil Sysoyev, Russia, Moscow, Islam, Christianity in Europe, Russian Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church, Religion Belief, Kirill, Kirill I of Moscow, Law Crime
Campaigner against hate crimes killed in Moscow
Moscow :: Russia | 15 days ago
Credibility Russian prosecutors say an anti-hate crimes campaigner has been shot and killed in Moscow. The Prosecutor General's Investigative Committee says the man killed Monday was an active campaigner against neo-Nazi groups. It said in a statement Tuesday that...
Tags: Daniil Sysoyev, Moscow, St Thomas Church, Russian Orthodox Church, masked gunman, Father Sysoyev, orthodox priest, opened fire, shot dead, death threats, Russia, Christianity in Europe, Orthodox Church, Religion Belief, Law Crime, Islam, Kirill I of Moscow, RIA Novosti
Patriarch Bartholomew to attend funeral
Belgrade :: Serbia | 18 days ago
Credibility SPC Bishop Irinej says around half a million people from Serbia, the region and the diaspora are expected to attend the funeral of His Holiness Patriarch Pavle. They would include numerous state officials and delegations from orthodox and non-orthodox...
Tags: Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Patriarch Pavle, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, orthodox churches, Belgrade, Serbia, Amfilohije Radoviￄﾇ, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Kirill I of Moscow, Patriarch, Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, His Holiness, Human Interest, Religion Belief, Serbian language, Mourning, Thursday, Rakovica, Half-staff, Rakovica Belgrade, Labor, Patriarch Dimitrije, Russian Orthodox Church, Tanjug, Christianity in Europe
Russians reject Germany's female Protestant leader
Moscow :: Russia | 22 days ago
Credibility The church permitted no ordination nor even leadership roles for women, he said. �This question is very serious,� said Sawerschinski. Ultimately, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Cyril I, would have to rule on the matter, he said.
Tags: Protestant church, Germany, Protestants, Russian, Russia, Moscow, Eastern Christianity, Ecumenism, Religious pluralism, Russian Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church, Christianity in Europe, Christian ecumenism, Interfaith, Religion Belief
Warring VimpelCom shareholders pull the olive branch from their scabbards
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 2 months ago
Credibility They said, in a surprise joint announcement on Monday, that Vimplecom, and Ukraine’s Kyivstar – over which the two have waged a bitter war on strategic direction and management – would be merged, with the Alfa Group’s telecoms arm, Altimo, getting 43.89%,...
Tags: Alfa Group, Telenor, Ukraine, Kyivstar, Vimpelcom, Altimo, Kyiv Post, Russian Orthodox Church
MTS starts selling mobile phones under own brand
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
Credibility Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has begun selling mobile phones under the MTS brand, the company said in a statement. The company plans to debut three new mobile phone models this fall. The first model, the MTS 236, was specially designed by China's ZTE Corporation...
Tags: MTS, mobile phones, Russian Orthodox Church
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