MOSCOW (AP) — Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a night-time Easter service led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and an outspoken supporter of the Kremlin. The traditional sung service begun late Saturday, with Kirill delivering well-wishes to Orthodox believers which were broadcast on […]
The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church has suspended a priest who participated in services for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Dmitry Safronov took part in Navalny’s funeral as well as presiding at the commemoration on March 26, the 40th day after his death – an important Russian Orthodox tradition. An order published Tuesday […]
Over at The Stream, Timothy Furnish has a piece discussing the animus against the Orthodox Church. Furnish notes that this comes on the heels of disdain for Evangelicals and Roman Catholics. Furnish writes: Now they’re coming for Orthodox Christians. Most recently—during our Lent, of course—a Texas Monthly hit piece […]
A rabbi whose organization represents more than 2,500 traditional, Orthodox Jewish rabbis in U.S. public policy condemned Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for comparing the annual Conservative Political Action Conference to controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The ADL responded to the rabbi’s statement by emphasizing what it characterized as evidence of extremism at […]
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