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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Russian Orthodox Church

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during his annual news conference and call-in show at Gostinny Dvor in Moscow, Russia, December 19, 2024. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
December 20, 2024, 8:42 am
Reviving antisemitic trope, Putin says Jews are tearing apart Russian Orthodox Church
Comments made during press conference echo Soviet-era antisemitism under Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and accused them of being ‘rootless cosmopolitans’
By Zev Stub and JTA
President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and his wife Olena lay flowers at the Wall of Remembrance on the occasion of Independence Day of Ukraine in Kyiv, August 24, 2024. (Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP)
August 24, 2024, 2:55 pm
Zelensky vows ‘retribution’ against Russia on Ukrainian independence day
Ukraine’s president delivers address near border at site of country’s surprise incursion into Russia, says new law bans Moscow branch of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
By AFP
The Rev. Andrei Kordochkin conducts a religion service at the Russian Cathedral of Saint Mary Magdalene in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, July 15, 2023. In February, Moscow's Patriarch Kirill suspended Kordochkin, a priest at an Orthodox church in Madrid, after he condemned the Kremlin's decision to send troops to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Paul White)
August 12, 2023, 11:32 am
Russian Orthodox priests persecuted by state and church for backing peace in Ukraine
Clergy speaking out against the war have been defrocked or reassigned, others have been fined by courts for discrediting the military
By KOSTYA MANENKOV
Serhiy Petrovytch Doumenko, Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv, Head of Ukraine church, leads an Orthodox Christmas service at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery in Kyiv on January 7, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)
July 29, 2023, 11:48 am
Ukraine moves Christmas Day in snub to Russia
Zelensky signs bill highlighting deepening rift between churches in Kyiv and Moscow since Russian invasion
By AFP
Father Georgy Edelshtein, an 89-year-old Russian Orthodox priest, speaks with AFP in his house in the hamlet of Novo-Bely Kamen on the banks of the River Volga in the Kostroma region on April 25, 2022. (Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP)
May 1, 2022, 10:59 am
Risking jail, handful of Russian priests condemn Ukraine conflict amid threats
Orthodox Father Georgy Edelshtein, born to a Jewish father and Catholic mother, says Ukrainians should be allowed to ‘build their state as they see necessary’
By Romain COLAS
Pope Francis, left, embraces Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill after signing a joint declaration on religious unity at the Jose Marti International airport in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)
April 22, 2022, 1:29 pm
Pope Francis: Planned Jerusalem meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch ‘suspended’
Pontiff says Vatican diplomats warned that sit-down with Kirill, a supporter of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ‘could lead to much confusion’
By ToI Staff
Pope Francis delivers his homely as he celebrates a Mass for the solemnity of St. Mary at the beginning of the new year, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, on January 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
April 11, 2022, 9:15 pm
Report: Pope Francis may visit Israel in June, meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch
Pope has voiced opposition to Russian invasion of Ukraine while Russian Patriarch has supported it; potential visit would follow planned trip to Lebanon in June
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Rabbi Yonatan Neril posts an interfaith letter against the war in Ukraine to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on the walls of Jerusalem’s Holy Trinity Cathedral, March 21, 2022. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
March 21, 2022, 10:32 pm
Local clergy affix letter calling for end to Ukraine war to Jerusalem Russian church
Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze leaders gather in Jerusalem to call on Patriarch Kirill to ask Putin to bring end to bloody conflict
By Lazar Berman
People walk outside the Alexander Nevsky Church in Jerusalem's Old City, on January 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 3, 2022, 5:01 pm
Amid Ukraine invasion, Jerusalem court nixes transfer of Old City property to Russia
Judge rules only the government is able to decide on ownership of Alexander’s Courtyard, due to matter’s political and religious considerations
By ToI Staff
People pray next to the body of Ukrainian Army captain Anton Sydorov, 35, killed in eastern Ukraine, during his funeral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 22, 2022. (Emilio Morenatti/AP)
February 28, 2022, 2:18 pm
How the Russia-Ukraine war is tangled with religion
Divisions in Orthodox Christian movements aligned with either Kyiv or Moscow are rooted in centuries of history, but both sides are striving to maintain a message of unity
By Peter Smith
In this April 13, 2020, photo a priest takes part in a Holy Monday ceremony held without worshipers at the Athens Cathedral, in Greece, during a lockdown order by the government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
April 17, 2020, 1:18 pm
Lockdown weighs heavily on Orthodox Christians during Easter
Greece and Russia have arranged to pick up Holy Light from Israel, but won’t distribute it as most significant religious holiday for 300 million Orthodox is essentially cancelled
By Elena Becatoros and DARIA LITVINOVA
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport on January 23, 2020, to attend the World Holocaust memorial which marks the 75th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz. (Oded Balilty / POOL / AFP)
January 23, 2020, 9:06 am
Putin, Pence arrive as world leaders gather for major Holocaust commemoration
Russian leader to meet with Netanyahu, backpacker’s mother Yaffa Issachar, who says she hopes to hear daughter is returning; PM will later visit Western Wall with US vice president
By ToI Staff
Yaffa Issachar speaks to Channel 12 news in October 2018 (Channel 12 screenshot)
January 22, 2020, 5:23 pm
Putin to meet mother of Israeli backpacker imprisoned in Russia – Kremlin
Russian leader to sit down with Yaffa Issachar amid Israeli officials’ optimism he may announce a pardon for daughter Naama, as he visits Jerusalem for World Holocaust Forum
By ToI Staff
A woman walks toward the Russian Orthodox Church headquarters in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
August 27, 2018, 3:45 pm
Russian US election hackers targeted Orthodox patriarch, Ukrainian Jewish leader
As Kiev and Moscow fight over the religious future of Ukraine, spies went after Jewish leader Yosyp Zisels who frequently defends his country from charges of anti-Semitism
By Raphael Satter
In this file photo taken on June 16, 2009 Russian Rabbi Boroukh Kleinberg reads from the Torah inside his Mitzvah Bus in Moscow. (AFP Photo/Alexander Nemenov)
June 19, 2018, 11:49 pm
Russia seeks to force out foreign rabbis as ‘national security threat’
A new law targeting non-Orthodox Christian missionaries has been increasingly used by authorities to expel Chabad emissaries
By victoria LOGUINOVA-YAKOVLEVA
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