Thursday, December 24, 2015

Russian Orthodox Church sacks outspoken cleric in Moscow


FILE - In this file photo taken on Sunday, July 22, 2012, Father Vsevolod Chaplin, chairman of the Synodal Department for the Cooperation of Church and Society of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, speaks to the media before a rally in Moscow, Russia. Father Vsevolod Chaplin, who headed Moscow Patriarchate’s department for the cooperation between the church and society since 2009, has been released of his duties and his department has been disbanded. The church explained its decision Thursday by the need to increase efficiency and streamline its structure. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, file)MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Orthodox Church has sacked an outspoken official who pushed the church to take a more aggressive role in public life.


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