harmonious relationship that exists between the russian orthodox church and the russian state with president putin being a practicing orthodox christian how being the church to expand its role within the society what is the difference between how state political and religious matters and intertwined in russia and how they are mixed up in ukraine i can tell you what's the difference if for example president putin would decide that all christians in the russian federation should belong to the russian orthodox church and if you would say that the roman catholic church in russia. is no longer welcome you should join the russian national church if you are petri what's then it will be a clear intervention into the into the internal life or the church's or if for example prison put in would dictate who should be or who should be left as bishops this will be the intervention such intervention is unimaginable. now both russia and ukraine trace their history from kievan rus reaches i thing an interesting title because it merges together the cons. of geography and it is not only purely personal grievance but him and and this element was very cle

we cannot accept is that the russian orthodox church also accused the constantinople patriarchate of wanting to start a war against the unity of the orthodox christian church and it said that if the ukrainian autocephaly is granted you're going to stop communicating communication of with with constantin ople by doing that one won't hear fact of li. fuel doubt or even more because you would effectively have to tie your cut your ties for. with other churches some of the churches have a have to decide whether to side with you or with constant within that make things even worse first of all we do not need to cut ties with other churches if we cut ties with constantinople there are situations in which two churches are not in communion with one another but. are in communion with both of them and this is what is likely to happen but in canonical terms we will have no option because we cannot accept in the. such action on the part of constance in opal we will have to respond in this way and we are already a warrant several times. that this will be one of the consequences of his actions he's supposed to announce his final decision i mean in a formal way i th

it roughly ten percent of the population is christian mainly adherence of the coptic orthodox church and many feel oppressed by the muslim majority even on the football field. a training session like any other in alexandria obstacles sprints and dribbles. most of these young players are coptic christians. yes we offers these youngsters the chance to train a chance that's not easy to come by here in egypt. but we still have no idea i tried it three clubs and it's not like anybody told me i had to leave but i was treated very badly even when people heard my name they would be raised eyebrows and exchanged glances because my name is different i didn't feel comfortable i left. the players here are very critical of the clubs who they say discriminate against non muslim players. and i mean i've been diary gives his boys some tips the twenty two year old lives for football but he's own career was over before it had even begun. his former club wanted him to give up his christian sounding name rather than do that he gave up playing football and founded the jets we academy instead. we can cut t

christian roots. every week a staggering nineteen new orthodox churches are either built or restored in russian . many welcome this increase including president putin seen here opening a new church with patriarch kirill the primate of moscow and all russia. but not everyone is happy. you have kenny lebedev is part of a group of parents who oppose the churches illegal seizure and why frequent utilization of a mosque a park in order to build a new church not a little bit too much. which is. what it is it is not much and it shouldn't surprise you. that he should like almost a siege of the regime. that you would need it but he actually not but is ready. for you on your. most sundays he and dozens of other locals gather to share their position. i put it openly questions such developments carries a risk as yevgeny discovered in november two thousand and sixteen. his home along with eleven others was stormed by police often. as in much time raids across the capital. scheme to me and not of the whole what is done to the us what if you all know the breach of being my nation when you are going to go becaus

christian rules. every week a staggering nineteen new orthodox churches are either built or restored in russian . many welcome this increase including president putin seen here opening a new church with patriarch kirill the primate of moscow and all russia. but not everyone is happy. you have kenny lebedev is part of a group of parents who oppose the churches illegal seizure and ny frequent utilization of a moscow park in order to build a new church not that it will not. reach it. what it is it is not much and it shouldn't surprise you. to be sure michaelmas i said you the receipt. that you would need it but he actually not but it's ready. for your new. most sundays he and dozens of other locals gather to share their position. i. put it openly questions such developments carries a risk as yevgeny discovered in november two thousand and sixteen. his home along with eleven others was stormed by police often. as in much time raids across the capital. it's going to be a novel novel what it does to the us what if you all know the breach of being my nation when you are going to go because many of the b

meanwhile the orthodox christians are holding a memorial service at their church. was. here they remember the victims of the resistance fighters was a it. was. just they don't want any new heroes here they simply want to practice their faith in peace. or you know. this is the village of. about ten kilometers away. in january one thousand nine hundred six remodelled rise and his men set several buildings on fire here sixteen local residents were killed in the march and i know of khan has reawakened painful memories of those crimes. claudio was four years old at the time of the incident she's frightened by the recent nationalist demonstrations she we all lost that new job there was a woman who was nine months pregnant leon like you know plenty and her body was burning we saw her later the talk of get up she gave us the she was moaning and moaning. it was too late to save her i think about that every day and again and again i see the flames. i'll see the flames until the day i die and there. well means you mom don't go in that was then but afterward we lived peacefully wit

spectrum of how should i say -- repentant kgb operatives becoming fervent christians is more than amusing. furthermore, the orthodox church is a kgb front varied it has been for years peered if you look at this and if you look at the church attendance in russia, it is not very impressive. it's 3-4%. all of the stuff about russia being a christian religious country, it's not propaganda but the reality is different. however here, we have all these probes, mainly on the right. remember the photograph of flynn with the woman sitting there, that was jill stein. democrats will tell you that it may have cost a lot of votes. it may have been a factor peered beyond that, we know that flynn, manafort, the nra, we know that the republican national committee -- they hacked into the republican national committee and various senators peered they've attacked democrats and the clinton campaign and they attack 30 state election commissions. what they're doing now is matter of public record but it is clear there doing it because the intelligence committee has said it. and it's going on here it as part of their cyber activities, they have a

spectacle of how should i say it, repentant kgb operatives becoming fervent christians is more than amusing. furthermore, the orthodox church is, itself, a kgp front. it has been for years. as anybody who studies this knows. . moreover, if you look at the figures of church attendance in russia, they're not very impressive. i think thit was 3% to 4% was t last one. all this stuff about russia being a christian religious country, it's nice propaganda but the reality is rather different. however, here, we've seen all these probes mainly at the right. they were to the left like jill stein. remember the photograph of flynn with putin in a din e tner, the woman sitting there is jill stein. democrats will tell you stein may, of course, have a lot of votes in the three states, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. i don't remember how many she got but may have had a factor. now, beyond that, we know about flynn, know about manafort, know about the nra, know about the center for national interests. we know they tried to hack into the republican national committee and variation senatou. they attack eed democratic national committee and

christian europe and the new figure of where you are so rich. that walls already on the table which directs that's discrimination and the large and the laissez shun mostly ukrainian orthodox church one side. effects if that will presuppose that the ukrainian norse in the church should change its name and that it should be a name to the russian orthodox church in the ukraine it is something like put singly in. hilo. when they join the n.c. in future this. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know lawyer a pretty meaningless book video neighborly is an idea spilling into the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen and those who took part had invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and cost. chris and democratic. colleague at. least. until this time. i got stuck i said to my destiny to get money in. their lives to build a school. i mean into him a ride on a mission a highway nine. look what was on the hood of these look i. don't wan

orthodox protestant church was actually welcome to apply for service. the commission did not solicit assistance from unitarians, for example, roman catholics, and others considered outside the fold of evangelical christianity. of the approximately 5000 delegates, only a handful where women. they made a tremendous impact. often the early and chaotic stages of its existence, the commission would have delegates to serve various traits of time, making allowances for different schedules. as the war dragged on, the beach delegates found at least six weeks in the field. which thehe year in commission began its benevolent operations, the organization sent 356 delegates to the field. by the close, 4859. structured -- instructed them to view all military regulations and abstain from casting aspersions upon the authorities, military, medical, and clerical. the group was aware of infractions of the rules may lead to cruel relations with officers, surgeons, and chaplains that could jeopardize this work. cruel relations did prevail for a time. major general howard, often referred to as the christian general, was a supporter of the christian commission. he delivered a public address in which he find the "system of the ar

christianity among many of the kgb or fsb personnel. does this have anything to do with the possible schism between the eastern orthodox church which is basically centered in the ukraine? can you say something about that please? >> the orthodox church, that has been all over the state and it's also been an arm of the secret police going back in many cases. there's no privacy in the confessional, for example. the church was obliged to inform on people telling them of the seditious activity. as an arm of the russian state is that it is an arm of the empire. there has been this trend if you go through the entire ukrainian history and try to look at the ukrainian history of objectively without polemics on either side or on the many sides of all these issues, the russian orthodox church tried to assert that it is the main church and the ukraine's orthodox church is subordinate to it. and that therefore the russian orthodox church and by implication therefore the russian state have hegemony or leadership in ukraine and that they are the church you should orient yourself towards area -- towards. now, they have tried to play effortme with redoubled und