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		<title>Russian Christians Take Ice-Cold Dip</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.apologeticsindex.org/o06.html">Orthodox Christians</a> in Russia are marking Epiphany, one of their most important religious holidays. The tradition sees many people brave ice-cold water as they hope to wash away their sins, <a href="http://rt.com/news/features/russia-orthodox-epiphany-water/"><em>RT</em> reports</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Greece Sues Monastery Over Land Exchange, Seeks $12 Million, Ownership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Greece <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-28/greece-sues-monastery-over-land-exchange-seeks-12-million-ownership.html">sued</a></strong> an <a href="http://www.apologeticsindex.org/o06.html">Orthodox Christian</a> monastery over a land deal, seeking ownership recognition and a damages payment. ]]></description>
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		<title>Row over &#8216;Red Patriarch&#8217; splits Bulgarian Orthodox church</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johan de Boer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a central square in the Bulgarian capital, where Sofia&#8217;s homeless fill up battered plastic water bottles from a public fountain, icons and a large wooden cross form a crude altar. Nearby, members of a rag-tag congregation sit on peeling park benches serving as makeshift pews. Moving among them are dozens of long-bearded figures wearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Orthodox Church leader dies in helicopter crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johan de Boer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Patriarch of Alexandria, Peter VII, one of the most senior figures in the Greek Orthodox Church, was killed along with 16 others in a helicopter crash in the Aegean Sea, church and government officials said. The patriarch, the spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in Africa, was heading to the Mount Athos monastery in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kremlin sued for return of churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Religion News Blog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 80 years after its churches were seized by &#8220;godless Bolsheviks&#8221; and turned into anything from grain stores to shoe factories the Russian Orthodox Church is launching an unprecedented legal battle to win back its property. Furious that the Russian state still owns most of the country&#8217;s churches 13 years after the collapse of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Service helps heal Russian Orthodox rift</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2004 17:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christians have attended an open-air service outside Moscow marking another step forward in improved relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. Around 10,000 people gathered at the site of a former secret police base where thousands of people were executed under Soviet dictator Stalin for the service, conducted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox Church leader calls US embargo of Cuba a &#8220;historical mistake,&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(HAVANA)- The leader of the Orthodox Church branded the US embargo of Cuba a &#8220;historic mistake&#8221; in a sermon Sunday during the full pomp inauguration of a new cathedral in Havana with President Fidel Castro in attendance. Bartholomew I, the Orthodox ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, made the statement during a sermon that formed part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian museum chief faces jail after show angers church</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Russian museum director has fallen foul of both church and state by organising a controversial exhibition that has been accused of offending Orthodox beliefs. The director of the Sakharov museum, named after the Soviet-era dissident Andrei Sakharov, has been charged with inciting religious hatred for staging the exhibition entitled Look out, Religion!. If found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Orthodox Church freezes ties with Episcopal Church over gay bishop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW, Nov. 17 — The Russian Orthodox Church announced Monday that it is suspending ties with the U.S. Episcopal Church over its consecration of an openly gay bishop, saying that homosexuality is a sin and that it &#8221;cannot condone the perversion of human nature.&#8221; &#8221;Homosexual sexual contact has always been considered a grave sin by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crusade to make Rasputin a saint splits church</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2003 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Telegraph (England), Feb. 6, 2003 http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/ By Julius Strauss in Moscow A bitter rift has opened in the Russian Orthodox Church over a campaign to canonise Rasputin and Ivan the Terrible. The movement, which leading Orthodox officials have sought to quash, is spearheaded by a growing revisionist movement in the Church. It believes that [...]]]></description>
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