"Residents of Crimea will be able to enjoy the mild light of the Christmas star shining from the highest bell tower of St. Alexander Cathedral till the feast of Theophany on January 19," diocesan officials said.
"There are doubts about the very possibility of a pan-Orthodox Council being held at a time when some of the Orthodox Churches are in a state of unsettled conflict, and the leader of the Orthodox Church of the Czech lands and Slovakia has still not had his status recognized by a number of Orthodox Churches, to say nothing of the extremely unstable general political situation worldwide," the metropolitan said in a statement, the Russian Orthodox Church said in a press release.
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The restoration that was fully funded from the city's budget continued for about a years, without a single scheduled service missed out at the same time
Jewish organizations of Crimea categorically denounce the statements of Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko concerning violations of Jewish rights on the peninsula that he recently made to the Israeli parliament.
The Patriarch has plans for other trips abroad, too, but their format and dates will be refined further, the spokesman said