Reuters quotes an official in the Moscow Patriarchate as saying that Alexy II, the Orthodox Christian Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia received treatment while on holiday.
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April 28, 2007Vladimir Putin’s visit to Italy brought about the return of Russian Orthodox-built church in Adriatic city of Bari to the Moscow Patriarchate.
Popularity: 3% [?]
March 17, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pope Benedict XVI met Tuesday in the highest-level Kremlin-Vatican talks in more than three years, The Associated Press news agency reported. The meeting of the two leaders expected to focus on ways of easing tension between Catholics and Orthodox Christians and finding common ground on moral issues.
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March 14, 2007The insurance company for the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has settled a claim by a man who says he was abused as a teenager by monks at a monastery in the United States, The Associated Press reports.
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December 15, 2006
A Russian court on Wednesday started hearings in an unprecedented lawsuit brought by a 15-year-old student who says being taught the theory of evolution in school violates her rights and insults her religious beliefs, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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December 14, 2006The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II has criticized the Vatican behavior exhibited to Russia and other ex-Soviet states, the Associated Press news agency reported Tuesday.
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December 5, 2006A priest and his family were killed on the weekend in an arson attack on their home in a Central Russian region.
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December 4, 2006Dozens of believers lit candles and joined in a prayer service in a small Russian Orthodox church in Moscow on Friday to mark World AIDS Day, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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A top Russian Orthodox cleric said on Sunday that the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church were allies in the face of hostile secularism, the Reuters news agency reported Monday.
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November 20, 2006An official spokesman of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that schools should teach other theories of human creation apart from Darwin theory, but did not name any options.
Darwinism should not be presented at schools as the only scientific hypothesis of human origin, said the Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate’s External Relations Department Michail Dudko.
“Obviously, this theory may be taught in school but not as the only scientific view on the origin of the world. Besides, Darwin’s theory contradicts Christian ideology according to which our world was created and did not evolve graduallyâ€.
The official also noted that the Church’s point of view had the right to be presented in schoolbooks on equal terms with Darwin’s theory.
Dudko made the comments as a court in St. Petersburg started hearings into the lawsuit of a schoolgirl who said teaching Darwin’s in schools infringed her rights as a Christian believer. The girl, represented in court by her father, also claims that presenting Darwin’s theory as the only correct theory encroaches her human right to choose the point of view.
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October 27, 2006
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