(The Moscow times)The Russian Orthodox Church has cursed and excommunicated a journalist for “satanic lies” in accusing the abbess of a monastery of scaring locals into selling their homes for “peanuts.”
The church used excommunication and the anathema ecclesiastical curse as powerful weapons against its enemies under the tsars but rarely imposes the sanctions today.
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