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POPS'Where Was God?' - Refugees Ask the family found a military convoy that helped get them to the convent, which has provided food and medicine to refugees. Thirty tons of supplies have poured into the convent from the Russian Orthodox Church alone. "We are working around the clock," Mother Nonna said. "We drowned in the flood of refugees." Recently washed children's clothing is strewn across the railings outside the convent, which functioned as a summer camp for the Communist youth group during the Soviet era and now includes a special rehabilitation center for children who survived the 2004 terrorist siege of a school in nearby Beslan. Dzara Kumeritova, an assistant at the convent, said that the refugees from South Ossetia all arrived terrified, most of the children too scared to eat for the first day or two. "Somebody slammed the door and the crowd shivered," she said. The article continues... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26206516/
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POPSCzar Nicholas II Nine Decade Mystery Solved
Alexei was one of the more compelling of the victims, drawing sympathy because of his hemophilia. His mother's terror of the disease and fear that he would not live to gain the throne were key to her falling under the thrall of the hypnotic and sexually ravenous self-declared holy man Rasputin, who exerted vast influence on the royal family. Rumors persisted that some of the family had survived and escaped. Claims by women to be Anastasia were particularly prominent, although there were also pretenders to Alexei's and Maria's identities. "It was 99.9 percent clear they had all been killed; now with these shards, it's 100 percent," said Nadia Kizenko, a Russian scholar at the University at Albany, State University of New York. "They say that as long as the last soldier remains unburied, the war continues," Lukyanov told AP. "So long as the last victim of Bolshevik terror and the Communist regime remains unrehabilitiated, the repression will continue."
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POPSUspenski Cathedral Finland's Uspenski Cathedral is a spectacular building, truly a must see if visiting Helsinki.
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POPSJurisdictionalism hits Anglicans Anglicanism in the USA seems to be on its way to becoming a tangled mess of separate jurisdictions even more complicated than the jurisdictional mess in the Orthodox Church there. Some US Episcopalians have linked to Anglican dioceses in various parts of Africa, and now South America has jumped in. For the last 150 years or so the Orthodox diaspora has led to competing episcopal jurisdictions in places like Western Europe, North America and Australia. One can find overlapping juriisdictions of Greek, Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian and other bishops. Now the same thing is beginning to happen among the Anglicans, with Kenyan, Ugandan, Nigerian and now Argentinian bishops having overlapping jurisdictions. At least among the Orthodox, despite language and ethnic differences, there is the same faith.
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POPSDeathbed Qoutes I only clipped the ones I liked (or understood :P) there are more at the source.
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POPSPresident Putin Will Mediate Between Two Churches
At the same time, the Russian Orthodox Church was being recruited by President Putin to fill the gap left by Communism. The Church is patriotic to the point of being nationalistic - a useful organising principle for a society suddenly cast adrift, and a valuable source of moral support for the Putin government. There are signs that the special relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church and state will prevent a significant relaxation in the Vatican's freedom of movement there. But there has been a noticeable thaw in relations since Pope Benedict's election in April 2005. President Putin at Mt Athos, Greece In 2005 President Putin visited the Orthodox monks at Mt Athos Senior clergy from the Vatican attended an inter-faith summit in Moscow last July, and an Orthodox official is thought likely to be among the Russian delegation with President Putin on Tuesday. The president - himself baptised as a Russian Orthodox - has said he can mediate between the two churche
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