by Sean Reilly | Nov 13, 2007
The Czech government has agreed, after almost two decades of dispute, to compensate churches for properties confiscated under communist rule, and also to make them financially independent from the state – writes Jonathan Luxmoore. “There’s a common...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 2, 2007
President Vladimir Putin has attended a memorial service conducted by Patriarch Aleksei II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, at a church built near a Soviet police secret killing field, where at least 20 000 people were executed at the peak of dictator Joseph...