The Interfax-Religion website reports today (March 11, 2012) that lawyers have appealed the arrest of two members of a feminist punk rock band for performing a song inside Moscow's largest Orthodox Church that outraged clergy and worshipers.
On March 5, Moscow's Tagansky Court confirmed an order that Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -- performers of the Pussy Riot band -- stay in custody until April 24.
Pussy Riot sang a song in front of the altar in the massive Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 21.
The group described the song as a "punk prayer," but many of the worshipers who were present saw it as being blasphemous.
