The present report appeared at the Kyiv Post earlier today under an expanded title. Our readers should bear in mind the vaunted “Byzantine symphonia” model for church-state relations in 21st-century Russia: as goes the Kremlin, so goes the Patriarchate. Note the “accusations of ‘incitement of social and religious discord'” below [emphasis added].

Orthodoxy in Dialogue highly recommends the Kyiv Post for its extensive daily reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and all other news Ukrainian. The previous paywall has been abolished under new ownership/management.

Russia’s highest court has approved the Ministry of Justice’s request to ban and label the “International LGBT Movement” as an “extremist organization,” potentially allowing the government to confiscate donations dedicated to the representatives of the community and make its members  [sic] arrests.

The closed-door meeting on Thursday, Nov. 30, only permitted representatives from the Ministry of Justice to be present in the courtroom. Journalists were solely invited to hear the decision announcement, as reported by Mediazona’s correspondent. Read More

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Cold in Gaza

Mohammed al-Hawajri

2015

Inga Leonova has written—and Public Orthodoxy has published—a genuinely bizarre article. Darkly titled “Strike the Jew,” Leonova’s essay comprises at least three incongruous elements: (1) valid observations about rising Western antisemitism and the Orthodox Church’s abiding complicity in it; (2) unfounded assertions about the events of October 7 and Israel’s genocidal response to them; and (3) apocalyptic pronouncements about the supposedly eternal, transhistorical, and ineradicable hold that anti-Jewish bigotry enjoys across the entire world. Responding to every issue raised in Leonova’s piece would require far more space than the present article allows for. Instead, I will offer a series of observations that help to disentangle the various issues that Leonova problematically—indeed, damagingly—attempts to sandwich together. Read More

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Grant rest eternal in blessed repose, O Lord,

to the souls of Thy servants who have fallen asleep,

and may their memory be eternal.

Memory eternal. Memory eternal. Memory eternal.

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