Word: novodyevichi
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...Easter gift to the Orthodox Church, the Soviet Government last fortnight announced that Russia's once-wealthiest convent, the 422-year-old Novodyevichi ("New Virgins"), which has been a Moscow museum since 1922, would be restored to the Church. It could again take in Russian girls as nuns. About 90 other convents and monasteries throughout Russia have been recently returned to the Church, making its recovery of confiscated properties exceed...
...Council further passes on plans to open theological schools, nonexistent in Russia since 1917. The first one, Moscow's Theological Institute in the 400-year-old Novodyevichi monastery, was reopened three weeks ago. More recently the Council has granted Gregorian Armenians permission to open a seminary near Erivan, is now considering a request from Moslems in the Uzbek Republic who want to open a school for mullahs. Poliansky concedes that religious freedom would be an empty slogan if churches could not recruit clergy, declares there is "no objection" to any faith having religious schools for clergy...
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