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Article: The church is risen indeed. (millenium of Russian Orthodox Church)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 2, 1988
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The Russian Orthodox church is celebrating its millennium this year with the blessing of the state. is it merely a truce-or are the Soviet Union and Christianity moving towards an historic compromise?
THE main theme of the sobor (the council) that the Russian Orthodox church is holding in the Holy Trinity monastery of St Sergei at Zagorsk on June 4th-16th will be the baptism 1,000 years ago of the Kievan Rus, a realm stretching from the Black Sea towards the Baltic. In 988, say the ancient (how accurate?) chronicles, Prince Vladimir, the realm's ruler and a convert to Christianity, decided to have his subjects baptised in the river Dnieper close to Kiev in what is ...