FORTY
MAIN EVENTS
OF RELIGIOUS PUBLIC LIFE ON 2017 ACCORDING TO PORTAL-CREDO.RU
Portal-Credo.ru,
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December 2017
1.
Prohibition
of the activity of all religious organizations of Jehovah's
Witnesses in the
Russian federation and their ruling to be "extremist"—April-July
2.
Campaign of
"Orthodox activists" for banning motion picture "Matilda"
and its widespread release—April-November
3.
Public
protests against possible transfer of St. Isaac's cathedral in
St. Petersburg
to the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow patriarchate
[RPTsMP]—January-October
4.
100th
anniversary of the Russian revolution, opening of the Local
Council of the
Orthodox Russian Church, and election of St. Tikhon as
patriarch—February-December
5.
Letter of
UPTsKP [Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev patriarchate]
Patriarch Filaret to the patriarch and Bishops' Council of the
RPTsMP
requesting forgiveness and restoration of
communion—November-December
6.
500th
anniversary of the Reformation—October-November
7.
Visit by
Russian president to the ecclesiastical center of the Russian
Orthodox
Old-Believer Church; beginning of change in the political status
of Old Belief
in Russia, 31 May
8.
Series of articles in news media containing criticism of the
head of the RPTsMP in
connection with the administration of the Russian
president—May-July
9.
Declaration by
the president of the U.S.A. recognizing Jerusalem as the capital
of Israel and
beginning of new mass protests of Arabs against
this—November-December
10.
Conviction
by "the tribunal of DPR" and release of Donetsk religious
studies
scholar Igor Koslovsky—May-December
11.
Trial of
Ekaterinburg blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who "hunted Pokemons" in
a
church of the RPTsMP—April-May
12.
Intensifying
of the discussion about finding the murder of the family of
Emperor Nicholas II
to be "ritualist."—November
13.
Information
campaign regarding bringing relics of St. Nicholas to Russia
from Bari—May-July
14.
Stormy
reaction of Russian Muslims, led by Ramzan Kadyrov, to
oppression of Muslim
ethnic group Rohingya in Myanmar—September
15. Vociferous matter of
plan by an
archpriest to poison Catholicos-Patriarch of all-Georgia
("cyanide
case")—February-September
16.
Arrest of
activists of Church of Scientology of St. Petersburg—June
17.
Demolition
of Dormition church on the territory of the Novo-Tikhvin
monastery of the
RPTsMP in Ekaterinburg, the oldest building in the city and
monument of the
18th century with national signification—early April
18.
Prosecution
of the Moscow "Sova" Center for News and Analysis, which studies
religious extremism and respect for human
rights—February-December
19.
Publication
of new archival documents giving evidence of the organizing by
the N.K.V.D. of
the U.S.S.R. of the Local Council of the RPTsMP in 1945—December
20.
Effective
refusal by RPTsMP to support initiative by the ROCOR [Russian
Orthodox Church Outside Russia] of the MP for burial of
Lenin's body—March-October
21.
Death of
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cardinal Liubomir Guzar—31 May
22.
Defense of
the first "secular" dissertation in theology in the RF by an
archpriest
of the RPTsMP, completing the integration of theology into the
system of
secular education and science—June
23.
Arrest and
detention in a SIZO of Hegumen Nikolai and parishioners of the
Kaliningrad
parish of the ROCOR(V-V)—27-29 May
24.
Campaign by
RPTsMP and Russian authorities against possible adoption in
Ukraine of laws
revising the legal status of the UPTsMP—May
25.
Confiscation
from ROCOR of the ancient church of St. Vladimir in
Yaroslavl—May
26. Guilty verdict by Moscow district military court of the imam of a Moscow mosque, Yardyam Makhmud Velitov, who preached a funeral sermon at the burial of a member of the "Hizb ut-Tahrir" movement—28 April
27. 6th Diaspora Council of ROCOR(ASI) and start of unification of this new "remnant" of ROCOR with the Russian True-Orthodox Church—January-April
28. Forcible eviction of the International Rerikh Center from Lopukhin estate in center of Moscow—28-29 April
29. Guilty verdict on teachers of an Orthodox orphanage in Yaroslav province for abuse of children and murder of one of them—11 October
30. Refusal by Russian authorities to remove abortion from the list of medical services financed by the state (which RPTsMP sought)—October
31. Attempt by an "Orthodox businessman" to transfer the icon "Angel of the Golden Hair" from the Russian Museum to his cottage estate—September-October
32. Trial on charges of pedophilia of priest Gleb Grozovsky of the St. Petersburg metropolia of the RPTsMP—June-December
33. First international synaxis (conference) of priests of the RPTsMP and of other churches of "world Orthodoxy," who have ceased commemorating their ruling bishops after accusing them of the heresy of ecumenism—4 October
34. Guilty verdict of patron of ROCOR and cossack ataman from Moscow suburb of Podolsk, Vladimir Melikhov—13 June
35. Order by mayor of Moscow for construction near the cathedral of Christ the Savior of monuments to patriarchs, including Kirill—6 December
36. Arrest and conviction in Belarus of cleric of the St. Petersburg metropolia of the RPTsMP for pimping—August-September
37. Adoption of plan of primate of True-Orthodox Church (R-S) and change in the administrative structure of this church—14-20 October
38. Dismissal of Archbishop Mikhail from administration of the West European diocese of ROCOR of MP—29 September
39. Termination of television broadcast of "Tsargrad" channel, financed by Russian "Orthodox oligarch" Malofeev—1 December
40. First congress of the Russian Byzantine Catholic Church—6-9 June
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