11 September 2011
A fledgling pro-life movement in Russia began in parish-based activism but now is finding growing support among Russian Orthodox leaders... Read more
Topic: Russian Orthodox Church
26 January 2011
The growing HIV crisis in Russia, affecting mainly intravenous drug users, is being targeted by the Russian Orthodox Church as... Read more
17 May 2007
The formal unification of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad took place in a lavish ceremony... Read more
28 May 2003
According to officials of the Russian Orthodox Church – the only Christian Church allowed to register in Turkmenistan – the unilateral... Read more
27 May 2003
Without any change in the law or Constitution to provide for them, the steady increase in concordat-style agreements between the... Read more
15 April 2003
Local officials met Buddhist and Russian Orthodox leaders in Russia's southern, traditionally Buddhist republic of Kalmykia on 1 April to... Read more
06 February 2003
A heated debate over Russia's first tsar, Ivan the Terrible, and the lecherous mystical healer Grigory Rasputin, who compromised the... Read more
19 October 2002
A Russian Orthodox priest who has just completed his first visit to the North Korean capital Pyongyang has told Keston... Read more
19 October 2002
Plans by the Russian Orthodox Church to open a church in the North Korean capital Pyongyang are part of a... Read more
25 July 2002
Federation Council Agriculture Committee Chairman Ivan Starikov announced that he intends to start working on a law that would restore... Read more