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May 31 2020, 12:25 pm
Associated Press: With masks and gloves, Ukraine’s priests return to duties
IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine — Wearing a white biohazard suit, a face shield and a blue mask over his mouth and nose, the Rev. Yaroslav Rokhman is hard to …
Associated Press
May 23 2020, 12:43 pm
Zelensky: Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is government property
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has replied to an electronic petition calling for the termination of the lease of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra …
Interfax-Ukraine
May 5 2020, 9:04 pm
New York Times: Pandemic corrodes church-state ties in Russia
MOSCOW — A physics student at Moscow State University, Dmitri Pelipenko turned away from science in 2018 to devote himself to God, enrolling as a …
New York Times
May 1 2020, 7:49 pm
Reuters: Russia drops plans for Putin mosaic in military church
MOSCOW – A grandiose mosaic depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and other high-ranking officials will not be put on display in a new military …
Reuters
April 29 2020, 3:52 pm
The Guardian: Giant new Russian cathedral glorifies Putin and Stalin in mosaics
Russia is planning to open a huge cathedral with mosaics depicting Vladimir Putin and Joseph Stalin, as well as the annexation of Crimea, on the 75th …
The Guardian
April 19 2020, 11:25 am
Reuters: Saudi top religious authority recommends home prayers in Ramadan
RIYADH – Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body, the Council of Senior Scholars, urged Muslims worldwide to pray at home during Ramadan if their …
Reuters
April 19 2020, 10:14 am
Reuters: Bulgarian Christians celebrate Easter amid coronavirus outbreak
SOFIA – Hundreds of Bulgarian Christians flocked to the Orthodox temples for outdoor services on a surreal Saturday night with the Balkan state one of …
Reuters
April 19 2020, 9:55 am
RFE/RL: Orthodox churches hold diminished Easter services amid pandemic
Orthodox Christians observed the Easter holiday amid extraordinary coronavirus-related restrictions on services that forced many parishioners to watch …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
April 19 2020, 9:38 am
Georgia Today: Kyiv Pechersk Lavra identifies 26 new cases of COVID-19
Twenty-six new instances of infection with coronavirus were identified in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, states the mayor of the Ukrainian capital Vitali …
Georgia Today
April 18 2020, 1:33 pm
Media: Metropolitans of Ukrainian Moscow church secretly hospitalized with COVID-19
Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) Metropolitan Onufriy, Metropolitan Antoniy and Rector of the Kyiv Theological Academy …
Interfax-Ukraine
April 17 2020, 9:11 pm
Hromadske: How Ukrainians are celebrating an Easter under quarantine
Easter is one of the most important days for Orthodox Christian Ukrainians – and a celebration for non-observant Ukrainians as well. The day typically …
Hromadske International
April 16 2020, 9:41 pm
Associated Press: Rival Ukraine churches clash over Easter lockdown rules
Ukraine’s two rival Orthodox churches clashed on April 16 over public health guidelines for forthcoming Easter celebrations, after the one said …
Associated Press
April 12 2020, 4:33 pm
BBC: Pope calls for global solidarity in Easter message
Pope Francis has called for global solidarity to fight the coronavirus crisis in his Easter message read to an empty St Peter’s Basilica. Read more …
BBC
April 12 2020, 1:53 pm
Associated Press: Pope celebrates joy of Easter amid sorrow of virus pandemic
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis and Christians around the world marked a solitary Easter Sunday, forced to celebrate the most joyful day in the liturgical …
Associated Press
April 9 2020, 9:27 pm
Reuters: Coronavirus hits headquarters of Russian-backed Ukraine church
The coronavirus has infected 26 people at the thousand-year-old headquarters of Ukraine’s Russian-backed Orthodox Christian denomination, which had …
Reuters
April 4 2020, 12:43 pm
Reuters: Russian church leader tours Moscow with holy icon to halt coronavirus
MOSCOW – Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russia’s influential Orthodox Church, drove a holy icon around the streets of Moscow in a procession of cars on …
Reuters
March 24 2020, 10:33 pm
UNIAN: Orthodox Church of Ukraine backs call for parishioners to stay home
The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has allowed religious services to be carried out by clergy with no parishioners present at …
UNIAN
Feb. 26 2020, 8:33 pm
The Moscow Times: Belarus arrests Jehovah’s Witness at Russia’s request
Belarus has for the first time arrested a Jehovah’s Witness at Russia’s request, the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia organization said on Feb. 25 amid …
The Moscow Times
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