Rating: 7|Votes: 5
The memorial church has been erected on the site of the original one, which was burned down by Nazis in 1943. 262 residents (including 108 children aged under 16) were burned alive inside that church.
The idea of the pilgrimage of Greek police officers to Holy Mount Athos belongs to chief of the Hellenic Police department in the Attica region, brigadier general Vasilis Zikos.
An anti-Church campaign is continuing in Greece. It flared up after the holy relics of Great Martyr Barbara had been brought to the country. Some who follow the media closely are positive that the campaign is financed by the USA.
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
The trip’s route will repeat the famous Great Russian North Way, which is over 1000 years old. The length of the tour will be 1.5 thousand kilometers (c. 932 miles).
Belgorod has become the seventh regional center in the “itinerary” of the holy relics within Russia, after Volgograd, Stavropol, Elista, Yaroslavl, Rybinsk and Moscow. Since the relics have arrived in Russia already over 400,000 pilgrims have venerated them.