Church News from St. Petersburg
Minos Orphanides
>By Yevgenia Borisova
>
>The head of the Russian Orthodox Church was in attendance when the defense
enterprise that
>helped armor the T-34 tank gave back its premises -- formerly the Alexander
Nevsky Lavra=20
>(monastery) -- to the St Petersburg and Ladoga eparchy.
>
>Alexiy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, was responsible for
beginning the negotiations with
>the Prometei institution that led to the monastery's return to the church
back when he was the=20
>Metropolitan of St Petersburg and Ladoga.
>
>Alexiy II conferred the Church Order of the First Rank of Daniil, Saint
Prince of Moscow, on St
>Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak and Prometei head Academician Igor Gorlin
for their efforts in=20
>returning church property. "We should do much to redeem our guilt before
God and the Church,=20
>because the future of the country lies in the revival of its spirituality,"
Mr Sobchak said.
>"Without it we will not succeed in the creation of the flourishing state,
neither we will make our
>people happy," he added.
>
>Founded March 25, 1713, the monastery was the spiritual and educational
center of St=20
>Petersburg. In Peter the Great's time it housed one of the city's first
schools and one of the first=20
>printing houses. A number of churches and residential buildings, a library,
archives, the=20
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y
attained its peak at the turn of the 19th=20
>century. But the monastery was disbanded in 1922 soon after the Bolsheviks
took power. Little=20
>attention was paid to the monastery's grounds until after World War II. At
that time, the ruined=20
>buildings were given to the Prometei institution of hard alloys and
materials. Prometei spent about=20
>60 million roubles (about $90 million at 1981 prices) on restoring the
buildings.
>
>The Patriarch said he was grateful to Mr Sobchak for his contribution to
the spiritual life of
>Russia and the return to the church of the Ioann and Valaam Monastery and
the Optina Pustyn.
>Mr Sobchak also played a major role in returning Kazansky Cathedral in the
city center to the
>church and the upcoming restoration of the most beautiful of St
Petersburg's cathedrals -- the=20
>Cathedral of the Savior on the Spilled Blood on Kanal Griboyedova.
>
>(c) St. Petersburg Press
>
>Church group accused of brainwashing
>By Ali Nassor
>
>The St Petersburg Prosecutor's Office has filed criminal charges against a
controversial "foreign"
>church, accusing it of running an educational program that violates human
rights. "A long-time=20
>investigation by the police has convinced us of criminal activities within
the Collegiate Association=20
>for Research of the Principle (CARP)," said Tatyana Vasilyeva, senior
assistant to the=20
>prosecutor's office press center.
>
>The criminal charges have come on top of a civil rights violation suit
filed eight months ago
>concerning allegations of "brainwashing."
>
>Officials from the Unification Church -- which runs CARP -- said they had
not been officially
>informed about the criminal charges. Neither had they received any official
summons to a court,=20
>they said. Tomy Alihaampera, a Unification Church missionary, said he hoped
that the church=20
>would eventually win the case. But Irina Mikhailova, president of the
Association of Parents for=20
>Freedom of Conscience (PFC), an organization supporting the church, said,
"The court is doing=20
>everything to make sure that the CARP will lose."
>
>Eight months ago, the Inter-regional Committee for the Protection of
Individuals from Totalitarian
>Sects (ICPITS), filed a civil suit against CARP. The committee accused CARP
of a series of=20
>individual rights violations, including "brainwashing of its members and
the church's systematic=20
>program to cause splits within family units." ICPITS demanded CARP's
activities be stopped=20
>immediately and that the organization pay a considerable fine for moral
damages to those who=20
>allegedly suffered from the program's activities.
>
>Pending the Dzherzinsky district court's decision regarding the civil case,
the justice department
>in the city had denied CARP official registration.=20
>
>In a petition letter to the court, the ICPITS's president, Ninel Russkikh,
said her daughter,=20
>Yevgenia, 19, and two other church members have radically changed their
family outlook due to=20
>the psychological effect inflicted by the church since they joined CARP.
But in an open letter to St=20
>Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak, the PFC said the trio had the right to
decide their own lives'=20
>course as long they are grown up.
>
>April 29 has been scheduled for the next hearing in the case against CARP.
>
>(c) St. Petersburg Press
>
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Tonic spaces, total =3D 72 (Pythagorean rules)
"Blessed be the Lord, teach me thy righteousness" in Byzantine=20
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Each word begins with capital.
Tone: Pa=20
Echos: Plagal A
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