A Russian Orthodox official has accused the US of inciting inter-Christian division in Belarus and “deliberately expos[ing]” Catholics in the country.
Russia has alleged that the US is meddling in the religious affairs of Belarus amid anti-government protests in the country.
Turkey is showing disregard towards Christian cultural heritage and failing to fulfil its promise to maintain free access to Hagia Sophia, Nikolay Balashov, an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church, told Sputnik on Friday, addressing Ankara’s latest decision to convert another former church into a mosque.
A female Catholic ‘parish priest’ in Russia has opened up about her work, saying “I really love what I do”.
Russian Orthodox hierarchs have joined the ranks of COVID-19 conspiracy theorists, going so far as to warn that the pandemic could herald the coming of the Antichrist.
“We’ve experienced this before”, East European Catholics who suffered through communism have warned with regard to coronavirus lockdowns.
Refugees in France and Greece are at special risk of contracting coronavirus as the pandemic sweeps through the entire continent of Europe, to Russia and beyond.
“I woke up this morning and found out that I am a prostitute,” a Moscow-based Twitter user who goes by the handle A Lady Who Has Had Too Much posted on February 16.
When President Vladimir Putin dropped his bombshell announcement calling for changing Russia’s constitution, the immediate focus was on what it meant for his future.
Joseph Stalin could have become a good Church leader if he had graduated from the Seminary and had not left the Church, the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church suggested, according to Interfax-religion.