Russian authorities accused an opera director of offending Christians, after receiving a complaint from a cleric at the Russian Orthodox Church.
Several Christs have been emerging in different parts of the world, all of them claiming they are the second coming of Jesus.
After the Football World Cup ended for the Russian team, an Orthodox priest thanked God and rejoiced over the end of the “homosexual abomination.”
The number of Russians who identify themselves as Orthodox may have risen but fewer people go to church now than before.
On December 29 and again on December 30, suicide bombers in Volgograd, Russia detonated bombs killing a total of at least 31 people.