Russian shelling hits a landmark church in the Ukrainian city of Kherson
Kyiv, Ukraine AP Russian shelling damaged a landmark church Thursday in the Ukrainian city of Kherson that until last year held the remains of Prince Grigory Potemkin, an 18th-century Russian military commander who encouraged Catherine the Great to expand the Russian Empire into what is now southern Ukraine. Ukraine’s emergency service said four of its workers were […]
RUSSIA: WHY THE ORTHODOX CHURCH HAS DROPPED PLANS TO BUILD A NEW CATHEDRAL IN YEKATERINBURG
MARC BENNETTS, writing for Religion News Service, reports from Moscow on the story behind why plans for a new Russian Orthodox Church in the country’s fourth largest city have been dropped…