{"id":78637,"date":"2022-01-11T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T09:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=78637"},"modified":"2022-01-11T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T09:44:27","slug":"russia-sees-less-than-1-of-population-go-to-church-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2022\/01\/11\/russia-sees-less-than-1-of-population-go-to-church-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia sees less than 1% of population go to church on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 1.4 million believers attended Christmas services across the Russian Federation. This is despite the fact that the leader of the ROC constantly boasts of Russia being an &#8220;Orthodox country,&#8221; claiming that the ROC is the world\u2019s largest Orthodox church.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the low attendance of churches on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some 1.4 million people attended Christmas services in 5,900 settlements across the Russian Federation,&#8221; said Irina Volk, Spokeswoman for the Russian Interior Ministry, <a href=\"https:\/\/mvdmedia.ru\/news\/ofitsialnyy-predstavitel\/vo-vremya-rozhdestvenskogo-sochelnika-i-prazdnichnykh-bogosluzheniy-politseyskie-obespechili-obshche\/\">MVD Media<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Given the total population of just over 144 million, it can be estimated that Christmas services were attended by about 1% of the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 1.4 million believers attended Christmas services across the Russian Federation. This is despite the fact that the leader of the ROC constantly boasts of Russia being an &#8220;Orthodox country,&#8221; claiming that the ROC is the world\u2019s largest Orthodox church. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the low attendance of churches on Christmas. &#8220;Some 1.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5142,5147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world-en"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fbe8d5b80d75ba8ebed2952a3f23b3c0.jpg?fit=1170%2C780&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}