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29.10.2008, 22:02
Relations between the Roman Catholic and the Russian Orthodox Churches have been rocky for centuries. But amid these difficulties a top Catholic official is visiting Moscow for the first time. The head of the French Catholics was invited by Russia's Patri
30.10.2008, 10:48
Although Catholicism has existed in Russia since the visit of a bishop to Kiev in 961, the first Catholic churches appeared in Moscow and St. Petersburg only during the reign of Peter the Great, in the 1770s. Over the centuries, the government's attitude
06.11.2008, 12:05
The Russian patriarch Alexy II has met his Georgian counterpart on Thursday in spite of the severe political tensions between the two countries. It is another sign of how religious co-operation between the countries’ respective churches continues to stren
01.12.2008, 14:25
Police are investigating whether Satanists could be behind an explosion at an Orthodox church in southern Moscow on Sunday.
03.12.2008, 13:18
Police are searching for those responsible for a home made bomb which has been discovered in Domodedovo, in the Moscow Region.
05.12.2008, 07:22
Three churches have been built in Moscow, Kiev and Minsk in just one day to celebrate the anniversary of Christianity in the region. Here’s the construction of one of them – compressed into half a minute!
12.12.2008, 18:53
Shanghai officials are calling for residents to drop their longstanding habit of hanging around the city streets in pyjamas.
Published: 04 December, 2008, 07:25
The ambitious simultaneous construction of three churches in the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian capitals in just 24 hours has been completed on schedule. The remarkable project in Moscow, Kiev and Minsk marks one thou
