Rating: 7.7|Votes: 10
Among the many topics to be discussed by the hundreds of hierarchs currently gathered in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral for the Russian Orthodox Church’s Council of Bishops is that of the “Ekaterinburg remains,” which are believed by some to belong to the Royal Martyrs—Tsar Nicholas II and his family, murdered in Ekaterinburg on July 17, 1918.
Rating: 5|Votes: 5
A special panikhida for the millions who perished at the hands of the godless authorities in the 1932-1933 Holodomor famine was celebrated on November 25 in all churches and monasteries throughout Ukraine.
Rating: 8.3|Votes: 7
Sretensky Monastery and Seminary in Moscow is currently hosting the conference “On the Murder of the Royal Family: New Evaluations and Materials. Discussion,” devoted to studying the results of the study of the remains found near Ekaterinburg which are tentatively believed to belong to the Royal Martyrs—Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were brutally murdered by revolutionaries On July 17, 1918.
Fr. Joseph Farooq
Rating: 8|Votes: 42
The city of Lahore received this man who would later sacrifice his life along with his family to save holy Russia. He was visiting India in 1891, when he was a still a prince, and it was at that time that he made up his mind to see Lahore.
Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov)
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 32
The journalist asks rather provocative and uninformed questions about the Church’s past and present relationship with the Soviet and Russian governments, and Bishop Tikhon provides his views on the complex subject of “Sergianism”, dissidents, and the Church in Russian society today. Although the liberal journalist and the bishop generally aren’t on the same intellectual page, this interview reveals what the Church in Russia now faces—no longer from the communist but now from the liberal press.