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Articles with tag "Religion"

insulted feelings

Russian Troops Detained for Washing Shoes in Holy Water

Video showing the two young men laughing as they washed their shoes at a chapel in Kaliningrad went viral last weekend.
heretic tiktok

Russian Teen ‘Insults Religious Feelings’ With Church Candle TikTok

The video shows the teenager using the flame of a lit candle on the altar to light a cigarette.
holy warriors

Russian Army Unveils Camo Robes for Military Priests

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NEW CATHEDRAL

Russia to Help Syria Build Replica Hagia Sophia Following Turkish Mosque Conversion

The move aims to show the importance of "peaceful dialogue" between faiths.
RELIGIOUS RIFT

Fire and Brimstone: The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Coronavirus-Denying Rebel Priest

The Russian Orthodox Church is trying to remove defrocked, ultraconservative Father Sergei Romanov from a monastery he has taken over by force.
logical leap

Russian Priest Compares IVF to Nazi Experiments

Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov, once named "Sexist of the Year" by feminists, called IVF a “dangerous and sinful game.”
'spiritual war'

Defrocked Coronavirus-Denying Priest Tells Putin to Step Down

“Transfer powers to me...Otherwise, I’ll declare a full-scale spiritual war against you,” Father Sergei said in the video address.
defrocked and dethroned

Shadowy Russian Clergyman Stripped of Priesthood After Virus Denials, Monastery Capture

Father Sergei seized a women's monastery after he'd been banned from preaching and called coronavirus restrictions a "satanic plot."
walking free

Russia Grants Early Release to Jailed Danish Jehovah’s Witness

The European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses called the court's move “a bold and honest act.”
wwii remembrance

Putin Hails Russian War Dead at Giant New Army Cathedral

The ceremony marked the 79th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
going rogue

Russian Church Issues Ultimatum to Virus-Denying Priest Over Monastery Capture

Father Sergei captured the monastery with around 100 supporters this week after he was banned from preaching.
laying siege

Coronavirus-Denying Russian Priest Captures Church With Cossack Fighters

Father Sergei was barred from public ministry for disobeying orders to follow health guidelines during the pandemic.
Military mega-church

Russia Consecrates Grandiose Armed Forces Cathedral

Hundreds of members of the Armed Forces attended, eschewing face masks and social distancing.
religious crackdown

Russia Hands ‘Harshest, Longest’ Jail Sentence to Jehovah’s Witness

Russia banned the Jehovah's Witnesses as an “extremist” organization in 2017.
Eid al-Fitr

Russia's Muslims Celebrate the End of Ramadan in the Time of a Pandemic

The Eid al-Fitr holiday is a feast marking the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan.
Siberian Jesus

For This Russian Messianic Cult, Coronavirus Isolation Is a ‘Blessing’

As the pandemic sows fear and uncertainty, some are looking to a Siberian mystic for answers.
turned tables

Russian Priest Hospitalized With Coronavirus After Calling it ‘Extremely Useful’

“Egotism has gone down, replaced by volunteerism,” Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov previously said of the pandemic.
pivot from putin

Russia Ditches Putin Mosaic in Army Church

The mosaic was intended to be a paean to Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.
'insulted memory'

Popular Russian Theologian Banned for Insulting Priest Who Died From Coronavirus

Protodeacon Kurayev referred to the head of a Moscow cathedral who died from Covid-19 as “a dumb careerist.” 
army worship

In Photos: Russia Unveils New Military Mega-Church

The cathedral will stand as a symbol of the close church-defense ties seen in modern-day Russia.
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