| The vaccine production is concentrated around Moscow. Even if it is produced in another city: for example, as the “Biocad” plant operates in St. Petersburg, the vaccine will still be brought to the capital for quality control and registration with Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor). — I had an assumption that the further the regions are from the center, the less they are provided with vaccines. But the vaccine is not more available in the Central Federal District, and less available in the Far East. That is, vaccination is equally difficult to receive in all federal districts. At the same time, there are regions that are well provided with the vaccine both in the center and in the outskirts of the country, – explains Dragan. According to the report, everyone can get vaccinated in the Sakhalin region since December 2020. “According to my data, this region is in the TOP-3 in terms of the percentage of the vaccinated people”, – the expert notes. In the neighboring Amur region, only doctors, pedagogues, and employees of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) are vaccinated, and mass vaccination is going to start before the end of winter. “There are no objective reasons why the situation in the Sakhalin region is much better than in the Amur region”, – says Dragan. The vaccination availability is also not related to the population size. — Both in the Tatarstan and Khabarovsk regions, 3 thousand people were vaccinated. Yet, 4 million people live in the first region, and three times less that number live in the second region, – the Pravmir source gives an example. The number of vaccine doses is also not related to the number of coronavirus cases. Although, the analyst had such theory as well. — The Kemerovo and Volgograd regions are two regions with a comparable population. According to official statistics, 1% of the population (slightly less than 28 thousand people) had COVID-19 in the Kemerovo region, and the Volgograd region had one a half times more cases, which is 1.6% of the population (more than 40 thousand people). However, the vaccination availability in the Kemerovo region is average: anyone can get a vaccine. The vaccination availability in the Volgograd region is limited, only priority groups are vaccinated. Here is another illustrative example: the Belgorod and Tyumen regions have 1.5 million people living in each region, 1.6-1.7% of the population had COVID-19 according to the official statistics. However, the availability in the Belgorod region is average, but in the Tyumen region, the vaccine is not available at all. |
| Tobolsk has a continental climate with a long, harsh winter and a short, relatively warm and humid summer. Average monthly temperatures in Tobolsk range from minus 18.5 degrees Celsius in January to plus 18 degrees Celsius in July. The average age of Tobolsk’s residents is 34. A view of the city of Tobolsk. Source: RIA Novosti Tweet Donate Share Code for blog Tobolsk, the Angel of Siberia admin From this spot, where the Tobol River joins the Irtysh River, Russia started establishing control over Siberia. In effect, all of Russian Siberia originated from the walls of the Tobolsk Kremlin, which was initially a wooden fortress. Tobolsk was founded in 1587 by the unit of Russian ... Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. For example, 5 euros a month is it a lot or little? A cup of coffee? It is not that much for a family budget, but it is a significant amount for Pravmir. If everyone reading Pravmir could donate 5 euros a month, they would contribute greatly to our ability to spread the word of Christ, Orthodoxy, life " s purpose, family and society. Donate Also by this author " Russian Church official: let’s not dramatize the Pan-Orthodox Council situation admin Russian Church official: let " s not dramatize the Pan-Orthodox Council situation " Metropolitan Onuphrius Expressed His Condolences to the Family of the Killed Clergyman of the Horlivka Diocese admin Today, dialogue is the only civilized solution to all problems and perplexities, excluding the escalation of evil and… |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation What Russians Donated Money To in 2020 Source: Pravmir (Russian) How did the pandemic change charity? Taisia Sidorova 14 April 2021 Photo: freepik Experts from the Need Help Foundation and CloudPayments have studied how charitable donations have changed in 2020 and 2021. If at the beginning of the pandemic, people willingly helped those who were most affected by coronavirus, then by the end of the year the share of support for environmental projects increased. Helping Physicians and Those Affected by the Pandemic Last spring the number of donations to nonprofit organizations increased. People were actively making one-time payments. There was also a steady increase in recurring payments. The benefactors’ activity was noted by nonprofit organizations which support socially vulnerable groups of the population and doctors. People wanted to support those who were most affected by the pandemic, including the elderly, doctors, and low-income citizens. Last April one-time donations increased by 136% compared to March, 2020 and these were the peak values. At the same time, recurrent payments grew from 4 to 17% from last March to May. This difference in growth rates between one-time and recurrent payments is typical for emergency situations. People most of all helped socially unprotected groups. Later, they started to donate to help doctors more. The average donation to medicine in 2020 was 938 rubles. The average donation to socially unprotected groups of the population was 1,082 rubles. Growth of auto payments In 2020, Russians more often chose to support different foundations systematically. In January 2021, the number of auto payments increased by 1.5-2 times compared to January 2020. Meanwhile, the number of recurrent payments to medicine and to socially vulnerable groups has doubled. Whom people helped in December 2020 |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation Anti-Christian Violence, Attacks on Churches in Europe at All-Time High in 2019: Report Source: The Christian Post Brandon Showalter 23 January 2020 Desecrated altar of St. Alain Church in France. Photo: Francebleu.fr Attacks against Christians in Europe reached record highs in 2019, as hostility and vandalism against churches, Christian schools and monuments sweep the continent. Earlier this month, the Gatestone Institute International Policy Council published its research of anti-Christian violence after having reviewed hundreds news reports, parliamentary inquiries, and police blotters, and found that approximately 3,000 acts of vandalism, looting and defacement occurred last year, incidents routinely obscured by the media. “Violence against Christian sites is most widespread in France, where churches, schools, cemeteries and monuments are being vandalized, desecrated and burned at an average rate of three per day, according to government statistics. In Germany, attacks against Christian churches are occurring at an average rate of two per day, according to police blotters,” the group documented in a Jan. 1 report. Those committing the crimes are rarely apprehended and the information about their identities are covered up by police and journalists, the group asserts. Because many suspects are said to have mental disorders, the acts of vandalism, though demonstrably anti-Christian, are not formally classified as “hate crimes.” The hostile acts that have been documented include instances of arson, defecation, desecration, looting, mockery, profanation, satanism, theft, urination and vandalism, and often the perpetrators are never caught. Tweet Donate Share Code for blog Anti-Christian Violence, Attacks on Churches in Europe at All-Time High in 2019: Report Brandon Showalter Attacks against Christians in Europe reached record highs in 2019, as hostility and vandalism against churches, Christian schools and monuments sweep the continent. Earlier this month, the Gatestone Institute International Policy Council published its research of anti-Christian violence after ... |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation Will Russia Come Back to Life? admin 22 December 2012 MOSCOW, December 19, 2012, ( pop.org )—What do you do when your country is dying, one coffin at a time? Well, if you are Russian President Vladimir Putin, you call upon Russian couples to be fruitful and multiply, and have at least three children. It is hard to exaggerate them demographic straits that Mother Russia finds itself in. According to the projections of the UN Population Division—we are speaking here of the so-called “low variant,” historically the most accurate—the Russian population will shrink by more than 30 million by mid-century if current trends continue . The population will age rapidly , from an average age of 37.9 in 2010 to and average age of 49 by 2050. In other words, most Russians will be beyond their childbearing years, and Russia’s demographic fate will be sealed. Vladimir Putin contemplates a holy relic. The economy will follow the population into the tank. No economy can thrive when a population is moribund, filling more coffins than cradles. This is not the first time that Putin has urged his fellow citizens to be prolific . In fact, he has been working more than a decade to reverse his country’s demographic decline. Back in 2005, Putin announced that Russian couples would receive the equivalent of upon the birth of a second child or higher order child. While this baby bonus created a bump in the birth rate, the numbers of births have begun to level off again. Many couples have already reached their desired number of children, received their bonuses, and are aborting any subsequent children they conceive. Abortion is still occurring in epidemic proportions in Russia. The birth rate has remained slightly higher than before, but is still too low to offset population losses. Russia continues to lose several hundred thousands people a year. |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation Copts under the Gun: Religious Freedom in Egypt Kathryn Jean Lopez 04 July 2013 July 2, 2013 As Mohamed Morsi faces the prospect of an imminent military coup, Raymond Ibrahim, the American son of two Egyptian parents and author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians , talks about the situation in Egypt and its implications, in particular for Christians who already find themselves in a precarious position. KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: What could the backlash against Morsi in Egypt mean for the future of Egypt? RAYMOND IBRAHIM: On the one hand, the average Egyptian has tasted a solid year of rule under the Muslim Brotherhood — and the majority don’t like it, as evinced by the mass demonstrations currently underway. On the other hand, it is a mistake to think that the uprising against Morsi and the Brotherhood is all about rejecting Islamization and sharia. A great many of those protesting Morsi are doing so less because of his Islamist agenda — which many are indifferent to — and more because he and his party have proven to be incompetent, corrupt, and, in short, making the average Egyptian miss Mubarak. Egyptians have been reduced to not having food to eat — and this is their fundamental concern. All that said, Egyptians have now had a taste of an Islamist government — which always sounded great, in theory — and, by and large, they have learned they don’t like it, the hard way. LOPEZ: What do the Copts need? IBRAHIM: All that the Copts want is equality — to be seen and treated as full Egyptian citizens, irrespective of their Christian faith. Under the era of Westernization and modernization, they were indeed largely seen as “regular” Egyptians. But, as Muslims went from emulating the West, to having contempt for it — I discuss this phenomenon at length in my book Crucified Again — so too did they begin to reclaim their Islamic heritage, and its teachings, which are fundamentally hostile to non-Muslims, and so Egypt’s most indigenous and native inhabitants — the Christian Copts — come to suffer for it |
| —Fortunately, in the ROCOR Diocese in the British Isles, which has existed for 85 years, we all have our own churches, but in most of the smaller, newly-established communities and parishes of the newer Sourozh Diocese of the Church inside Russia they have to use and rent Anglican and Catholic premises on Sunday mornings. Many of these communities are tiny—sometimes only ten people attend. Iconostasis of the Church of St. John of Shanghai. —Father Andrew, do you see any noticeable increase in the number of practising Orthodox Christians in England? Have many native English people become Orthodox lately? According to the statistics, Orthodoxy is one of the fastest-growing religions in Western Europe. Yes, we are growing—but by immigration, especially from Romania, Bulgaria and the Baltics, which are all in the EU. If all the local Orthodox came to church, then we would have thousands of parishioners. Unfortunately, fewer than 10 percent of Orthodox actually come to church. As regards Western people who come to Orthodoxy, regardless of nationality, their numbers have always been very small ever since English people began joining the Orthodox Church, basically in the 1950s. On average in our parish we receive one English person a year into the Church. I would say that over the last fifty years on average 50-100 English people a year have joined the different dioceses of the Orthodox Church throughout the country. This is very small numbers. Over 50 years this makes only 2,500 - 5,000 people in all. The situation is very similar in other Western countries—only small numbers come to Orthodoxy. Western people find it very difficult to put our Orthodoxy above Western culture with its rationalism and humanism. In any case, the most important question that we have to ask is not how many Western people join the Orthodox Church, but how many remain in the Church and do not fall away. Some jurisdictions receive many English people, but they nearly all fall away. In ROCOR we are careful about whom we receive and prepare them cautiously. Quality, not quantity. |
| So, defying my impression from the Web, I picked up the phone and made some calls. While this particular story had a happy ending, many similar ones do not. The lesson is clear: An average Internet surfer, potential visitor or local resident certainly isn’t going to go the extra mile to uncover your community’s vitality if they are unimpressed with what they find on your parish Web site. And that’s more than an opportunity for evangelism lost. In today’s online culture, a poor Web site could even affect your parish’s ministry to existing parishioners. According to the Barna Research Group, Americans of all ages use the Internet as a way to explore their own faith and different faith traditions in a private, non-threatening environment. Soon, that sort of Internet-based religious activity will be the normal course of action for any interested person — seeker or parishioner. In fact, a recent report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project indicates that only 15 percent of Americans are currently “off the network,” meaning they are completely without Internet-based access to news, information and interaction. Even more significantly, 51 percent are regularly engaged in various forms of what has been dubbed “Web 2.0”, a new culture of sorts, in which participants use various forms of online media and technology to regularly consume information and communicate with the world of cyberspace. That means that your parish’s online presence is more important to its ministry and religious education efforts than ever before. And the old patterns of static Web sites, without regularly updated content or the opportunity for user participation, aren’t going to hold people’s attention. While all of this may sound like bad news, it’s actually an amazing opportunity for ministry and religious education. Social trends like Web 2.0 are so powerful and pervasive because of the technological advances that have allowed average people to produce a variety of attractive and interactive Web sites without much difficulty. In other words, the hard work has already been completed. All we, as Orthodox Christians, have to do is tap in to existing resources. |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation Was Moses Really the Author of the Pentateuch? How should the Orthodox be? I would suggest, above all, not imposing grievous ties on oneself by confusing the stubbornness of Protestant fundamentalism with Patristic Tradition. For them, the authority of Scripture is based upon a literal interpretation of Revelation: God dictated these words to the great Prophet Moses, and therefore they are trustworthy. But for them, on the other hand, there is no such thing as Tradition. Dr. Andrei Desnitsky 15 August 2014 The average Orthodox reader of the Bible doesn’t think about questions such as the authorship or dating of individual books. The first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch of Moses? Of course, the Prophet Moses wrote it – after all, that’s what it’s called, and that’s what Scripture and Tradition teaches. And whoever doesn’t agree is an impious atheist. But then this Orthodox reader might come up against arguments from the other side. He either rejects them out of hand, starting directly from the conclusions without bothering with the arguments, or… he considers them and agrees with some of it. Does this then mean Scripture and Tradition are unreliable? Some draw this conclusion. Let’s stop and think about it. Tradition is a difficult and diverse thing; in it one can find all kinds of different statements (for instance, about a flat earth, the sun revolving around the earth, and the marriages of hyenas with morays), but only some of them are in fact of doctrinal significance. The question of the authorship of Biblical books clearly is not one of them. But what about the name the “Pentateuch of Moses”? Doesn’t it indicate an author? Not necessarily. Thus, the Psalter bears the name of King David, but David definitely didn’t write Psalm 136, “By the waters of Babylon,” simply because he died long before the Babylonian captivity. It’s unlikely that Jonah, Ruth, and Job themselves wrote the books that bear their names. And the Prophet Samuel certainly didn’t write the two books bearing his name in the Hebrew tradition (First and Second Kings in ours [i.e., in the Septuagint]) simply because he died in the middle of the first book. |
| About Pages Проекты «Правмира» Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation Is It Possible to Live a Holy Life in the World? Source: Holy Nativity Orthodox Church Archpriest Michael Gillis 04 June 2021 Photo: hranitel.club In my last post , I spoke of two options for Christian living. These options, marriage or monasticism, are the dominant options throughout most of Christian history—but not the only options. In the past twenty years in North America (and a little longer in Western Europe), there has been a dramatic rise in the average age for first marriage, a divorce rate that has hovered around 50% and, outside the Orthodox world, a noticeable increase in the number of monasteries that are closing down. Although Orthodox monasticism has seen somewhat of a revival over the past fifty years, still the relative number of Orthodox monasteries outside traditionally Orthodox countries is very small compared to the growing number of Orthodox Christians outside these lands. This confluence of trends has led to a large number of single Christian adults who do not live in marriage relationships or in monasteries. I think we might group these single Christians in the following way: Those who are living a profligate lifestyle. Those who are striving to live a holy life. I know these are rough categorizations, but I choose them because looking at things this way will help me say what I want to say. First off, there are many Christians who are living a profligate lifestyle. The religious sensibilities of our contemporary North American culture teach us that religion is merely a matter of feeling, of the “heart,” or of “faith.” Particularly, this culture teaches that one’s sexual practices are irrelevant to spiritual or religious life. If one is a good person (by the culture’s standards) and believes sincerely in and practices some religion or spirituality, that is good enough. In many ways, today’s culture is like the pagan world into which Christianity first entered. At that time, like today, sexuality was largely irrelevant to spirituality, and in some cases, extra-marital sexuality was encouraged as an expression of religious devotion. |
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