Thanks to a new project from the Moscow Archives and the State Inspectorate for Real Estate, unique documents on a number of churches and chapels destroyed in Moscow in the 1920s and 30s are now available online.
Deacon Andrei Psarev
We will look at representatives of the Russian Church Abroad who began their service in Russia and as a result of the Civil War found themselves abroad, those who filled her ranks during the war and those who began their service before the 1990’s.
Deacon Sergei Geruk
The Church cannot be changed as secular institutions are changed in our times. The Lord established His Church, and He preserves it. At this time, introducing the status of autocephaly and autonomy is an act which I consider to be dangerous and unnecessary.
On November 28, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holodomor, with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, memorial services were held in churches and monasteries throughout the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, “for the victims of the terrible events of one of the most tragic pages in the history of Ukraine.”
The measures taken against the resistance group were harsh, with over 150 people arrested in Dragomireşti. Torment and years of imprisonment for those who opposed the communist regime followed.