Tug of war over Russian Orthodox churches in France: Moscow reclaims cultural sites
📰 Source: France 24
About 20 years ago, the Russian state began a large-scale operation to take control of Orthodox parishes all over Europe. Some of these had, over time, broken ties with the Moscow patriarchate. They’re now the object of legal cases pitting the Russian Federation against local associations created to run these expatriate churches during the Soviet era. […]
