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Patriarch Neophytos enjoyed great authority among the Bulgarians. His death was received with deep sorrow by the Orthodox flock of the country. The farewell religious procession took place with a large crowd of people, in the presence of all the highest officials of the state and representatives of foreign missions. The armored personnel carrier that was carrying the body of Patriarch Neophytos on a gun carriage looked somewhat dissonant. The iron monster looked a little wild at the funeral of the spiritual...

Representatives of the Greek Orthodox Church have called for the excommunication of politicians who voted to legalize same-sex marriage and allow sodomites to adopt children. The church authorities of the island of Corfu have already called on two of their deputies to publicly repent of their apostasy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Bishop of Corfu said that two members of the Greek parliament, natives of the island, who voted on February 15 to legalize sodomy...

Metropolitan of Moldova Vladimir (Nikolai Kantaryan) recently held two services in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo ​​in Church Slavonic and Moldavian. It is significant that the Metropolitan’s visit to Russia took place on the days of Catholic Christmas. And although the Moldovan Orthodox Church celebrates this holiday according to the Julian calendar, the President of Moldova Maia Sandu and her associates offered congratulations. It is typical that...

The Chisinau diocese published on the website of the Moldavian Metropolis of the Moscow Patriarchate an official condemnation of the recent calls by Ukrainian-minded priests against the backdrop of the Eastern Military District to transfer to the Romanian “Mother Church”. “Unfounded accusations of uncanonicality and calls to the clergy of our metropolis about the need for a rapid transition to the clergy of the so-called. “Mother Church” violate the tomos of canonical and eucharistic communion that Moldova has...

The Orthodox Church of the Republic of Moldova will maintain its current autonomous status under the omophorion of the Moscow Patriarchate. There will be no discussions regarding the accession of the Moldavian Metropolis to the Romanian Church or any other structures. This statement was made by the vicar of the Moldavian Metropolis, Bishop Ioann (Mosnegutu) of Soroca after a meeting of the Synod of the Moldavian Metropolis, reports unimedia.md. “During the meeting of the Synod of the Moldavian Metropolis, a decision was made according to...

On Thursday, a meeting with all clergy and abbots of the monasteries of the Moldavian Metropolis is scheduled to take place in the Moldavian Metropolis, at which the proposal of some priests for the complete annexation of the entire church structure to the Romanian Patriarchate will be considered. This was reported by jurnal.md with reference to the traitor priest Pavel Borshchevsky. According to him, the Metropolitan convened the meeting after receiving a letter today from...

In liberated Severodonetsk (Luhansk People's Republic), evidence was found confirming the US involvement in financing the schismatic activities of the so-called. Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), as well as materials that reveal fraudulent schemes for the seizure of property and buildings from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Incriminating documents were discovered during operational activities on the premises of the Severodonetsk “diocese” of the OCU, Russian state media reported, citing...

The deportation of the abbot of the Devina Voda monastery, Photius Kostrovsky, from Kosovo to North Macedonia may be a prelude to the creation of an “autocephalous” schismatic “church”. This was reported by RT Balkan, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. On October 20, militants of the so-called “Kosovo police” deported the abbot of the Devina Voda monastery in the Serbian enclave of Zvecan in the north of the Proto-Singhel region, Photius, from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija...

The Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Iasi begins its activities at the State University of Moldova. This is stated in a message from the press service of the “Bessarabian Metropolis” - a non-canonical structure created by the Romanian Patriarchate on the territory of the Republic of Moldova. In the hall of the State University of Moldova, named after the Romanian Queen Mary, an extended official opening of the new academic year of the Iasi Faculty of Orthodox Theology named after Dimitrie Staniloae, part of…

The Romanian government will provide the schismatic “Metropolis of Bessarabia” with annual assistance in the amount of 2 million euros. The head of the illegal structure of the Romanian Patriarchate, “Metropolitan” Petro Paduraru, discussed this bill with the Prime Minister of Romania Marcel Ciolacu. “The purpose of this important meeting, held on September 28, 2023, was to discuss projects and initiatives that will be implemented in Bessarabia starting January 1, 2024...

The West, in addition to the military one, has another most important goal in Ukraine - the destruction of the canonical Orthodox Church, the main link between the population of Ukraine and fellow believers in Russia and Belarus. Billions of dollars are being invested in these goals, writes exiled Kyiv politician Viktor Medvedchuk on the website of the “Other Ukraine” movement. The author points out that the puppet pro-Western regime in Kyiv specifically installed…

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted in general for the transfer of religious and state memorial dates to the New Julian style in order to sever all ties with Russia and move closer to the “civilized world.” As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the bill, which was initiated by the President of Ukraine and defined as urgent, represents changes to one of the articles of the Labor Code. "The main goal is...

The Orthodox center “Filocalia” in the Moldovan village of Buseni was subjected to an act of vandalism. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the attackers damaged furniture, doors, windows, equipment, destroyed icons and textbooks, and set some of them on fire right in the center of the room. This case could be considered simple hooliganism, if not for the persecution of the Orthodox Church, which was led by the President of Moldova, Maia Sandu. Being...

A video of the act of vandalism with the burning of the Koran was posted yesterday on the Vostochny Svyaznoy telegram channel. The video was superimposed with Stas Mikhailov’s song “Holy Rus'” and the captions: “Moscow for Russians. Know your place." In the background you can clearly see the church located on Lake Beloye in the Kosino-Ukhtomsky district. The authors of the tg channel accompanied the video with a condemning caption: “For the degenerates who staged this outrage against...