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.
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).
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.
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”.
New volunteer teams arrive every week.