State Duma deputies, at a plenary session, adopted in the second and third readings a law aimed at protecting religious symbols of the main traditional faiths.
As aggression against canonical UOC churches grows in Ukraine, similar tensions are growing in Moldova.
The Godparents of the newly-illumined come from an ever-growing community of the faithful baptized in St Elisabeth’s over recent years. Those who received Baptism on the Feast themselves come mainly from local people who are coming to the Church in increasing numbers to seek out the truth of Christ our Savior.
The festival went from July 11 to 13, with events taking place in several locations in Kaluga province—in Optina Monastery, the village of Gubino, and Kozelsk. It was attended by as many as 30,000 people.
President Karis has twice vetoed a law in Parliament aimed against the Estonian Christian Orthodox Church, which is autonomous under the Moscow Patriarchate, on grounds that proposed laws lack clarity and would be unconstitutional.