On the night of July 11-12 in Israel, law enforcement officers detained three people who set fire to the Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes on June 18. This Christian shrine is located near Lake Kinneret. The arson caused serious damage to the church. Searching...
North of Charleston, South Carolina, the seventh black church was completely burned down. This time the victim of the fire was the historic temple of the African Methodist Episcopal Church on Mount Zion, built over 100 years ago. The police are considering arson. Firefighters of two ...
Representatives of the Chicago and Central American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) made an official statement in which they opposed same-sex marriage. They stated that the church will never recognize such marriages, despite the decision of politicians. The statement says that ROCOR does not reject people ...
A well-known representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, priest Vsevolod Chaplin, expressed the hope that peaceful and comfortable life in Russia will soon end. “If a society lives in conditions of relative peace, tranquility, satiety, for a certain number of decades - a couple, three - it can live in conditions of secularism,...
US police detained a 21-year-old suspect in a shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, which killed nine people. Earlier it became known that the FBI identified the attacker on the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Dylanne Roof of Lexington. The young man was ...
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has decided to end official contacts with the Church of Scotland and the United Protestant Church of France because of their decisions on homosexuals, according to the website of the Department for External Church Relations of the ROC. The decisions of the Protestant churches in the ROC were perceived "with deep disappointment", considering that they ...
A number of people's deputies appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of Justice with a demand to evaluate the behavior of the priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, who refused to stand in the Rada as a sign of respect for the Heroes of Ukraine who died in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone. “In the session hall there are 8...
Georgian liberal politicians believe that only rapprochement with Europe and the United States will allow the country to overcome its post-Soviet past and remain an independent state. However, is it not at the same time that the Orthodox Church is nurturing a generation of religious conservatives whose convictions are more in line with ...
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, felt that the staff of his church did not spend enough time communicating on social networks with “the most active part of the flock.” “If we do not want virtual reality to become such an atheized phenomenon, we will have to seriously think about...
After Easter, in mid-April, prayers will be read in Russia to help farmers and develop import substitution in Russia. This was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church-Society Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), priest Roman Bogdosarov. According to him,…