[stanne]

Good. We need the prayers

[topher]

During the age of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church was infiltrated by the KGB. I hope these people have been identified and kicked out of the Russian Orthodox Church.

[Carl Vehse]

Starting July 20 new laws by approved by Putin ban Protestant Christian evangelism and missionary activity in public, online, and even when meeting in homes. Religious activities and missionary conversations are allowed only in recognized church buildings and specific religious sites. Stiff fines will be levied on individuals and organizations who violate the law.

The Russian Orthodox Church (which is approved in Russia) supports Putin on this new law because it sees the evangelical Protestant churches as a proselytizing threat to its own members. Foreign Christian missionaries are limited by bureaucratic paperwork for required registration that keeps them from coming to Russia or returning if they leave.

More at "Russia's Newest Law: No Evangelizing Outside of Church."

Maybe the Russian Orthodox Church should experience some American bureaucratic paperwork.

[Sevenofnine1]

Having live in Alaska I rather have that than MOSQUE

[Claud]

OUTRAGE!!! ROCOR IS POACHING ON WESTERN ECCLESIASTICAL TERRITORY!!!!

(Heh heh....just kidding. I like to tease the Russkies about this. :)

[Kolokotronis]

This Met. Jonah is a convert from Episcopalianism and was the head of the OCA until he was forced out for a whole host of reasons by the bishops of that church. At one point the convert population in the OCA had great hopes for him. ROCOR is heavily convert and so may have assumed some of the OCA’s enthusiasm.

[Mount Athos]

I am a parishoner at a ROCOR church in the USA.