Over the past two weeks, police wearing balaclavas and carrying machine guns have raided the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses in four Russian cities, Newsweek reports. “This is a new wave of persecution. We don’t know what’s going on,” said Yaroslav Sivulsky, a Jehovah’s Witnesses follower from Russia who...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the appeal of President Petro Poroshenko to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to recognize the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, writes Ukrayinska Pravda. Poroshenko noted that his Easter meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew turned out to be encouraging, although the dialogue between Ukraine and the ecumenical throne about...

For the first time in at least 100 years, US Cabinet members attend a Bible study group. What exactly are ministers studying? What does Donald Trump think of this undertaking? And why can't women lead such a group? Every Wednesday, many of the most influential ...

January 19 marks one of the main holidays of Christian believers - the Epiphany. The main tradition of Epiphany is mass bathing in Jordans, that is, in specially open and consecrated fonts. On this day, it is customary to plunge headlong into the ice hole, washing off...

Pope Francis said the Roman Catholic Church should change the translation of the phrase "...and lead us not into temptation..." in the Lord's Prayer, Christianity's most famous prayer, Reuters reports. “This is not a good translation,” the pope said in a television interview Wednesday night. As he writes...

Monks from the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York, said they have been harassed for two years. “Hooligans are running around in cars, shouting obscenities. They park in the parking lot in front of the monastery bell tower, they start to hum, throw various objects at us ... ...

The United States of America at the time of the Iron Curtain, which cut off the countries of the socialist camp from the rest of the world, seemed to the Russian people an oasis in the desert, a paradise on earth and Eldorado at the same time. What ways did people find to go there forever, leaving behind family, friends, work. ...

The founder of the social network Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, who for many years positioned himself as a supporter of atheism, spoke about the importance of religion in life. This is evidenced by a post he made on his Facebook page on December 25, 2016. In it, he congratulated his ...

The Pope will meet in Cuba with Patriarch Kirill. At the meeting to be held on February 12, it is planned to sign a declaration on further relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). This will be the first meeting of the Pope with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Vatican was the first to announce the meeting in Cuba, as reported by the agency ...

Muscovite Andrei Filin won the right to be photographed on a driver's license with a colander on his head. The owl professes Pastafarianism - a religion whose followers believe in the Flying Pasta Monster. On January 9, he went to the police station wearing a colander cap signed by Niko Alma, the first person to be photographed on his right with a colander on his head. In the police, Filin pointed out the laws on the protection of freedom ...