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A Russian Catholic Hero Who Resisted the Czar and the Communists

June 19, 2021

The czarist government had sent him to jail in Siberia because he was a Catholic priest, not Orthodox. After the Russian Revolution, when he’d become head of the Russian Catholics, the communist state persecuted him as a Christian. Fr Leonid Feodorov died on 7 March 1935 of what were called “natural causes,” but were the

Ukrainian Catholics who used to worship in a basement see ‘dream’ of golden-domed church come true

May 25, 2017

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Odessa is 'not recognised' by the Orthodox majority

Kazakhstan, outpost of Catholic orthodoxy

January 25, 2017

The country has become a bastion of doctrinal traditionalism. Its traumatic history may be part of the explanation

Hagia Sophia, Turkey’s former cathedral, to appoint full-time imam

October 26, 2016

The appointment will fuel debate about Turkey's Islamic identity

An Orthodox schism could be looming. But there might just be a Catholic solution

September 12, 2016

Ukraine's Orthodox Church could split the two great Patriarchates of Moscow and Constantinople. Unless they turn to Rome

Orthodox priest-explorer begins round-the-world balloon trip

July 15, 2016

Fr Fedor Konyukhov, ordained in 2010, has already rowed across the Atlantic, climbed Everest and sailed around the world three times

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July 15, 2016

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June 24, 2016

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