The 66-year-old Sylvia Ann Driskell submitted a seven-page handwritten document to a federal court in Nebraska, requesting that the court pass a ruling on whether homosexuality “is a sin or not a sin.”
Ahead of the feast-day of Greatmartyr George the Victory-Bearer the Israeli authorities returned the church that once had been built in honor of the Greatmartyr of Lydda to the Orthodox Church.
Closure in 1971 of the Orthodox seminary on Halki deprived the clergy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople of most of the theological preparation in Turkey.
The “Parade of Victory on the Holy Land” international festival dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Russia’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II) is held already for the second time.
The temple is constructed to a design by the prominent Russian architect Viktor Shadrin and meets all the requirements of wooden architecture.