Council of Europe says Russian Church is complicit in war crimes, Church rep says the Council is divorced from reality

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Council of Europe says Russian Church is complicit in war crimes, Church rep says the Council is divorced from reality

PACE’s resolution is similar to the call of Estonian Minister of the Interior Lauri Läänemets to recognize the Moscow Patriarchate as a terrorist organization, although he has softened his language after his initial statement.

Estonian Minister softens language about call to recognize Russian Church as “terrorist organization”

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Estonian Minister softens language about call to recognize Russian Church as “terrorist organization”

Meanwhile, Ahti Kallikorm, a member of the Isamaa (Fatherland) Party, called on the state to break its church leases with the Estonian Orthodox Church (an autonomous body within the Moscow Patriarchate).

Icon of Theotokos streaming myrrh amidst flooding in Russia, diocese reports

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Icon of Theotokos streaming myrrh amidst flooding in Russia, diocese reports

An icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in the home of a local parishioner has been streaming myrrh amidst the widescale flooding affecting Russia’s Ural and southwestern Siberian regions.

Orthodox Mongolia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Part 1. From the first preaching to the twentieth century

Priest Vladislav Terentyev

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Orthodox Mongolia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Part 1. From the first preaching to the twentieth century

Priest Vladislav Terentyev

This accounts for the slow yet steady awakening of interest and love in Mongolia for Orthodoxy, the history of which officially began in Mongolia 160 years ago, although its roots go deep into the imperial past of the “land of the eternally blue sky”.

Orthodox volunteers repair 200 houses in Mariupol

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Orthodox volunteers repair 200 houses in Mariupol

New volunteer teams arrive every week.