The International Religious Freedom Summit has begun in Washington, an expert gathering of global scale devoted to the protection of…
In the Lithuanian Exarchate, clergy actions in the event of war were discussed
Members of the Council of the Lithuanian Exarchate and a representative of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union, Arunas Degutis, discussed how…
The Murder of the Polish Metropolitan. A Key Episode in the Struggle for Church Independence in Europe
On 8 February 1923, an archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church, Smaragd (Latyshenkov), shot Metropolitan Georgii (Yaroshevsky). The gunshot sounded…
Gundyaev to Putin: “It is good when the Church is part of the state apparatus”
At a meeting with Russia’s ruler Vladimir Putin, Moscow Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) said that “under the tsar-father everything was good…
An angel with the face of Giorgia Meloni. In Italy, the restoration of a fresco sparked a scandal
In one of the churches in central Rome, after restoration an angel came to resemble Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.…
