Why Westerners Move to Russia Krasnovo. Christian families from America, Brazil, and Denmark are relocating to rural Russian villages a few hours north of Moscow, Russian Spas.TV reported. One example …More
Why Westerners Move to Russia
Krasnovo. Christian families from America, Brazil, and Denmark are relocating to rural Russian villages a few hours north of Moscow, Russian Spas.TV reported. One example is Krasnovo with Holy Theophany Church, built in 1870. The church has an American priest, Father Joseph Gleason. He has friends joining him. They fly from America, Denmark, and other countries. The services in the Holy Theophany last longer than usual because the scripture readings and some of the hymns are duplicated in English.
Moving to Russia. Five years ago, Father Gleason moved with his wife and their eight children from America to Russia. Before he became Orthodox, he was an Anglican deacon. The first year in Russia was difficult because, after arriving here, Gleason was diagnosed with cancer. He was treated in Moscow and overcame it. Soon, life got better. He explains that you do not have a real home until there is a church, the faith, and fellow believers near you.
West Is No Place …More
Krasnovo. Christian families from America, Brazil, and Denmark are relocating to rural Russian villages a few hours north of Moscow, Russian Spas.TV reported. One example is Krasnovo with Holy Theophany Church, built in 1870. The church has an American priest, Father Joseph Gleason. He has friends joining him. They fly from America, Denmark, and other countries. The services in the Holy Theophany last longer than usual because the scripture readings and some of the hymns are duplicated in English.
Moving to Russia. Five years ago, Father Gleason moved with his wife and their eight children from America to Russia. Before he became Orthodox, he was an Anglican deacon. The first year in Russia was difficult because, after arriving here, Gleason was diagnosed with cancer. He was treated in Moscow and overcame it. Soon, life got better. He explains that you do not have a real home until there is a church, the faith, and fellow believers near you.
West Is No Place …More
Being a Slovak/Polish-American, I am a Slavophile and can understand the appeal of moving to a more traditional society, but modern Russia while not as godless as the old Soviet Union, is still far from being "Holy Mother Russia" of Dostoevsky.
