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The sharing of food and alcoholic beverages is extremely important today as in the past because provides a wealth of information on societies where this occurred. So far however, most of these practices known through archaeology have been primarily those undertaken by people from the same individual community or regional district. The Bronze Age site of Roca (2) in Southern Italy, has produced clear evidence for the existence at this place of one of the earliest inter-cultural feasting 'party' in Mediterranean Europe, dating to c.a. 1200 BC. This small (about 3 hectares nowadays, although it was larger in the past)...

SAN FRANCISCO: May 11, 2006 Resolution of the IV All-Diaspora Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Christ is Risen! We, the participants of the IV All-Diaspora Council, having gathered in the God-preserved city of San Francisco, in the blessed presence of the Protectress of the Russian Diaspora, the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God, and the holy relics of Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco, in trembling recognition of the duty laid upon us, in obedience to our Archpastor, Christ, with complete trust and love of the pastors and laity to our First Hierarch, His...

http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2006/5eninterviewpa.html  MOSCOW: May 1, 2006   Responses of Patriarch ALEXY II of Moscow and All Russia on Questions From the Official Internet Site of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia   From the Editors: At the last joint meeting of the church Commissions held last February in New York, it was decided to address questions to the First Hierarchs of both parts of the Russian Church relating to the reconciliation process between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate. This proposal was approved by the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of...

17 April 2006, 14:58 Division in Russian Orthodox Church senseless - patriarch Moscow, April 17, Interfax - Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II said on Monday that he prays for the unity of the Russian Orthodox Church inside and outside Russia in every service he ministers. "Today there are no reasons for schism between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian people who found themselves abroad during the Revolution. It is our duty to resolve problems that remain in our relations," he said. Many Russian emigrants have died and the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia "is losing its Russian...

Time is right for Russian Orthodox By Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune Every week, in a nondescript white building behind a tax office in West Valley City, Russian Orthodoxy comes alive. On an ordinary Wednesday morning, the new home of a burgeoning Russian Orthodox Church - about the size of a large living room - was ablaze with candles, smelling of incense and awash in the traditions of the country many left behind. The wooden icon screen compels reverence with its images of Jesus, Mary and the saints. A dozen or so believers stand for the two-hour service,...

Reaching for Religious Reunion By Lawrence A. Uzzell Unlike Poland and the Baltic states, Russia lacks a key source of "soft power": a united body of ethnic expatriates who can be relied on to support the mother country's policies in places like Washington. But this could change in the very near future. Moscow may bring into its sphere of influence what used to be a key ideological base for the Kremlin's emigre foes, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, or ROCOR. The Kremlin and the domestic, Kremlin-dominated Russian Orthodox Church could gain a new seal of moral and historical legitimacy...

Archbishop Mark’s “Friend” By Konstantin Preobrazhensky 1. Revelations from Mitrokhin’s Archives. “Friend” – that is the secret police code name of archpriest Vasiliy Fonchenkov, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. In the 1970s, he helped the KGB imprison anti-communist priests. Now, his past does not prevent him from being a member of the clergy of the Church Abroad. The KGB is so sure of the Church’s indifference, it can openly reveal its agents. “Friend” serves as a priest in Salzburg, Austria. Don’t believe me? Allow me to refer you to the book, “Mitrokhin’s Achives,” co-authored with Professor Christopher...

They tell us there is no more communist government in our Homeland. We beg to differ. G.M. Soldatow Fascist regimes have crashed in Germany and Italy. The populations of these countries and their representative governments have broken all ties with their shameful past. In Germany, for instance, it is forbidden by law to disseminate and sell Nazi emblems, posters, photos, literature, songs, etc. Stores do not sell musical recordings, and the youth dos not hear, nor does it sing songs of the “Hitler Youth”. Streets, formerly bearing names of Hitler and other Nazi criminals have been renamed, their monuments have...

High Treason: The Luring of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad to the Moscow Patriarchate

COMMUNIQUE on the Meeting of Metropolitan Laurus, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Members of the Synod of Bishops and President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir V. Putin A meeting took place in the Consulate of the Russian Federation in New York on 24 September between the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus, members of the Synod of Bishops and President V.V. Putin of the Russian Federation. Participating in the meeting were Archbishop Mark of Berlin, Germany and Great Britain, Bishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America,...