Posted on 06/28/2013 7:31:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
MOSCOW, June 28 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree to allocate about $20 million to renovate the St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in Nice, the largest Russian Orthodox Cathedral outside Russia.
The decree, posted on the Russian government’s official website for legal information on Friday, says the building will be handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church for “use without charge” when the renovation is complete.
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And the U.S. is spending money on Mosques...
Different countries have chosen different gods.
My thoughts are becoming confused. Russia is starting to seem more and more appealing. I know better but the appeal is still there. The world is becoming more difficult to navigate, it is upside down.
Russian is a hard language but not impossible and, unlike Chinese or Vietnamese, you don’t have to be able to sing to speak Russian. It has a serious IndoEuropean grammatical system which French and English lack, a different kind of a verb system, a sharp system of accents and inflections, and a number of other features which make it fun.
Next thing you know, they’ll add a 2nd amendment. And then, that’s it. Time to move.
That’s a lovely church. It really evokes heavenly joy.
Better Red”-ish” than Mo-Ham-Ed.....
Maybe they should rethink their claim that Sr. Lucia wrong when she said John Paul II did in fact consecrate Russia in keeping with her vision.
It's getting harder to see how some of what Russia is doing fits into theories about Putin.
If he intervenes to protect Christians in Syria but doesn't protect Assad as well it's going to trigger a whole new wave of Bestselling Christ Surrenders & Evacuates His Troops books but it's sure not going to fit the conspiracy theories about Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church very well.
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