By Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar New Delhi, Feb 28, 2022: Papacy is back in global politics — that is, assuming it ever left. Pope Francis’s gesture to visit the Russian embassy in Rome on Friday undoubtedly makes a notable event, for a variety of reasons. Pope Francis has a enduringContinue Reading
At least seven children and one teacher were killed in a shooting at a Russian school in the southwestern city of Kazan, local officials said. Rustam Minnikhanov, governor of the Tatarstan republic, of which Kazan is the capital, said that four male and three female students had died in Tuesday’sContinue Reading
The massive geopolitical power shift to Russia threatens the political dominance of the United States Continue Reading
And Ruslan Sokolovsky, a 22-year-old from the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, risks a five-year jail term after being charged with offending religious believers and inciting hatred.Continue Reading
On 7 July, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill referred to by one Christian organisation as an “anti-missionary bill”. The new law, known more commonly as the “Yarovaya” law (the name of one of its authors), which will come into effect on 20 July, was formallyContinue Reading
Moscow: Christians in Russia won’t be allowed to email their friends an invitation to church or to evangelize in their own homes if Russia’s newest set of surveillance and anti-terrorism laws are enacted. The proposed laws, considered the country’s most restrictive measures in post-Soviet history, place broad limitations on missionaryContinue Reading
Moscow Patriarchate bishop suggested postponing discussion of differences, the first in more than a millennium, because other churches won’t participateContinue Reading
