The Moscow Patriarchate Church says the document is directed against it, while parliament cites national security considerations On 3 February, the Supreme Court of Estonia... >>>
The International Religious Freedom Summit Has Begun in Washington
The International Religious Freedom Summit has begun in Washington, an expert gathering of global scale devoted to the protection of religious rights and freedoms. Its... >>>
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 clergy should act in... >>>
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 not merely as a private... >>>
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 and prosperous,” because at that... >>>