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The 200th anniversary of the first translation of the Bible into Malayalam will be celebrated by the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. Church historians say Philipose Ramban, a scholar from Kayamkulam, translated the Bible from Syriac into Malayalam in 1811 to help the faithful get a better understanding of the scripture.
In a city of golden domed cathedrals, the modern Saint Yuriy Orthodox Church is one of the best kept secrets. This unique wooden church, hidden in the shadow of the imposing Intercontinental Hotel on Mykhailivska Square, is remarkable for its Petrykivka paintings.
Today, I hasten to share with you the joy – the approved project and approximate documentation for the construction of an Orthodox Church in Bangkok in the name of the great saint of God, St. Nicholas, archbishop of Myra in Lycia.
On 4 September 2012, in anticipation of his primatial visit to Japan, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia gave an interview to correspondents of Japan’s major mass media:
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It sounds like a scriptwriter's dream. Here we have Russia, a vastly powerful country with a floundering democracy, facing the imminent threat of tyranny. That danger is personified by Vladimir Putin, a former KGB man who looks like, well, a former KGB man, as imagined by John Le Carré. Standing in his way is a gallant resistance movement symbolized by an all-female rock band, a group of punky young performance artists called Pussy Riot.
