The Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands objects to unprecedented accusations from politicians and their attempts to manipulate the Church.
Bishop Benjamin of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk
When the Lord calls you, you have to answer yourself whether it is your path or not. You cannot go to a monastery because it is beautiful or right, but because you love God and want to serve Him.
The building, which ROCOR has owned since 1957, “has fallen into extreme disrepair and is in need of major repairs.”
A delegation from the Patriarchate of Constantinople arrived in Ukraine yesterday, a day after the Verkhovna Rada adopted Bill 8371, which green lights the banning of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Lipavský said: “I don’t consider the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate to be a Church and its representatives to be clergy.”