Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev of Moscow and all the Russias gave the traditional Christmas address to believers at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow (Federal City of Moscow. Central Federal District) RF on 6 January
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Believers gathered for Christmas Eve services at the Church of the Nativity in Krasnoyarsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai. Siberian Federal District) RF
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Christmas Day in Russia marks the birth of Jesus Christ according to Orthodox Christian Orthodox tradition
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Serbian believers took part in a ceremonial burning of the badnjak (dried oak branches), a Yule log symbol for Orthodox Christmas Eve, in front of a church in Smederevo, some 60 kilometres east of Belgrade, on 6 January 2015
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The vast majority of people in Georgia are Orthodox Christians. Early on 7 January, Georgian Orthodox believers went to Christmas services at Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi
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Songs play an important role in Christmas traditions, and Georgian Christmas carols have a spirit of beauty and dignity
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Christmas is a major holy day in the Orthodox world; in Cairo, Coptic Pope Tawadros blessed the communion bread during Christmas Eve services at St Mark Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate
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The total number of Orthodox Christians around the world is about 300 million… Bosnian Serb Orthodox Hieromonk Andrej Kovacevic prayed on the eve of Orthodox Christmas in Sokolica Church, in Ravna Romanija, on 6 January 2015
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Greek Orthodox clergy waiting for the arrival of the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem Metropolitan Theophilos before the Eastern Orthodox Christmas procession outside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, 6 January 2015
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7 January 2015
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USA Persecuting Bosnian Serb Immigrants… Letting Croat, Bosnian, and Albanian Murderers Roam Free
Tags: political commentary, politics, Republika Srpska, Serb, Serbia, Serbian, Serbian history, Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Srpska Bosna, United States, USA
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Read this. The USA is persecuting Bosnian Serb immigrants, trumping up charges of war crimes against them with cases as flimsy as that against John Demjanjuk. Serbia refuses to join the USA’s economic war against Russia (“sanctions”), so, the USA is striking out at Serbian immigrants in the USA as they can’t hurt Serbia, as Serbia now has implicit Chinese and Russian guarantees. Speak out! If you needed proof that Republicans like John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz aren’t our friends and that you’re a boob to support them or their political faction, this is it.
NO ORTHODOX PERSON CAN SUPPORT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS IT IS ANTI-RUSSIAN, AND THEREFORE ANTI-ORTHODOX. What does that tell us about those in bed with the Western neoliberals like Victor Potapov, Lyonyo Kishkovsky, Jonas Paffhausen, Alexander Webster, S A Schmemann, Rod Dreher, Vassa Larina, and S L Kishkovskaya? We have traitors in our midst, sad to say. Which side are YOU on?
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