Category: MOSCOW
Patriarch Kirill serves liturgy in Damascus
13/11/2011 Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antiochand All the East have conducted a liturgy at the Assumption Cathedral ... Read More
Russian Orthodox patriarch begins Syria peacemaking Bid
13/11/2011 Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill on Saturday started a peacemaking bid to unrest-swept Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad and other leaders, ... Read More
Episcopal Assembly of South America
The Polish Orthodox Church Michał Kalina 06.11.2011 A second Episcopal Assembly of South America was held on 2-4 October in Buenos Aires, during which the ... Read More
Volhynian icon-painting Discoveries
THE KHOLM ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD. PRINCE DANYLO OF GALICIA BROUGHT IT APPROXIMATELY IN 1223-37 FROM KYIV TO THE CITY OF KHOLM (CURRENTLY ... Read More
Peresopnytsia Gospel presented and the exhibition about Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra opened at the Council of Europe
7/11/2011 STRASBOURG – KYIV: With the blessing of His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine on November 7, under the chairmanship of Ukraine ... Read More
Finnish pastor Juha Molari converts to Orthodox Faith
Juha Molari Moscow, November 8, Interfax – Finnish Lutheran Church pastor Juha Molari converted to the Orthodox faith at a ceremony conducted by Archpriest Nikolay ... Read More
President Dmitry Medvedev visits the exhibition-forum ‘Orthodox Rus’ – Towards the Day of the People’s Unity’
5/11/2011 On November 5, 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev visited the 10th Church-Public Exhibition-Forum ‘Orthodox Rus’ – Towards the Day of the People’s Unity’. The exhibition ... Read More
Russian businessman donates 70 icons worth around $1m to the Church
Sergei Shmakov and the Toropets Virgin Mary By Sophia Kishkovsky 26/10/2011 Sergei Shmakov has spent over a year tracking down the works, which were removed ... Read More
Belt of the Holy Virgin delivered to Russia from Athos Monastery
Moscow, October 21, Interfax – Delegation of St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation delivered a reliquary with one of the greatest Christian shrines – belt of ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill honoured with Moldova’s Highest Award
10.10.2011 On October 9, 2011, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia was presented with Moldova’s highest award, the Order of the Republic, ... Read More