Last week, a Russian priest interrupted the funeral service for a dead Ukrainian soldier by beating another Ukrainian Orthodox priest with a cross over his remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Newsweek edition told in more detail. The video from the funeral of soldier Alexander Zinovy from July 22 shows…
In the Russian city of Tver, priests from an airplane consecrated the city with holy water to protect residents from alcoholism and promiscuous sexual relations. Writes about this BBC. Every year, on the All-Russian Day of Sobriety, Father Alexander Goryachev gets on a plane and flies over the city with ...
A Catholic priest in Ohio was arrested after he confessed to having had a relationship with an underage girl, now 17, and pregnant for three years. Father Henry Christopher Foxhoven, 45, a priest from the diocese of Steybenville, ...
In the United States, 57-year-old former priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate Holu Patronage Church from Chicago, Nicholas Chervyatyuk, was found guilty of stealing more than 330 thousand dollars from the accounts of 96-year-old housewife Hellie Bridgeman. The priest faces up to 15 years in prison, writes the Chicago Tribune. Worms ...
The Rev. Edmundo Paredos of St. Cecilia's Catholic Church in Oak Cliff, Texas, has gone missing. According to the Dallas Morning News, he was under investigation for molesting three boys and stealing from the church. The leadership believes that Paredos fled to his ...
A Maryland priest drove a grieving family out of church ahead of their mother's funeral. The Reverend Michael Breeze was caught on video during an unpleasant conflict with relatives of the late Agnes Hicks at St Mary's Catholic Church in Charlotte Hall, the WTTG news service reported. According to…
An angry priest slapped a child on the cheek during a baptism ceremony. It is unknown in which country the incident occurred, but judging by the video, those around him speak French, writes Lenta.ru. The footage shows the clergyman raising his left hand and striking. The publication notes...
The personal secretary of the Archbishop of Tiraspol Sava, Archimandrite Benedict Circus, performed the thieves' song “Murka” during the parish meal. His singing was filmed and posted on Twitter by journalist Alexander Nevzorov. The major media immediately drew attention to him. The video caused a stir in ...
Child pornographic photos have been found on the computer of a 96-year-old former priest who once held a high position in the Archdiocese in New York. According to the investigation, Monsignor Harry Byrne showed them to other residents of the nursing home for priests, in which he lives, according to NBC. Law enforcers ...
In the Urals (Russia), a driver filmed a man in a cassock holding a child by the hand, opened the car, put food on the back seat, then opened the trunk and put the child there. The witness told the Russian portal E1.ru that the priest came to the parking lot with a child ...