Religion

Friday 25th September

Religion in schools, finally

Viktor Malukhin, 25 September 2009

Russian Orthodox Solovetsky Monastery complex, founded in the second quarter of the 15th century

Russia's Orthodox Church has finally won its battle to make religious education compulsory in schools, says Russian Orthodox Church official Viktor Malukhin. But the secularists have won concessions too

Wednesday 18th March

Who controls Russian Orthodoxy in Britain?

Xenia Dennen, 18 March 2009

The courts are about to rule on a bitter fight for the soul of Russian Orthodoxy in Britain

Thursday 12th February

Russia’s ambitious new Patriarch

Geraldine Fagan, 12 February 2009

Kirill, the skiing, worldly patriarch must balance openness abroad and diplomacy at home

Wednesday 10th December

Remembering Aleksii II Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia 1990-2008

Stella Rock, 10 December 2008

Remembering the man who returned the Russian Orthodox Church to its nation-defining role.

Wednesday 22nd October

Following the cross: a journey with Russian pilgrims

Stella Rock, 22 October 2008

For generation under communist rule religion was largely discouraged and heavily persecuted. But nearly twenty years after the collapse of the USSR worshippers and pilgrims are once again flocking to the country's revered shrines. Stella Rock joined Russian pilgrims in their spiritual attempt to unify and cleanse post-Soviet Russia.

The Grannies who baptised Russia

Marina Biryukova, 22 October 2008

Russia's soul is alive thanks to old women, says Marina Biryukov Plus: Stella Rock on Russian pilgrimage

Thursday 31st July

The strange story of Russia’s ‘revolting bishop’

Mikhail Zakharov, 31 July 2008

Russia's liberal press laughs when an Orthodox bishop excommunicates his Patriach and calls for mobile phones to be banned. But does it mean the fundamentalists are stirring?