Tag: MOSCOW
Participants in 2nd International Forum ‘Religion and Peace’ call religious leaders to combine efforts to combat extremism under religious slogans
On 16 October 2014, the 2nd International Forum ‘Religion and Peace’, organized by the Department for Inter-Regional Cooperation, National Policy and Relations with Religious Organizations ... Read More
Uniates leader calls UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate the only canonical Church of Ukraine
Interfax-religion Moscow, October 22, Interfax - Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) Archbishop Svyatoslav accepts there is only one canonical Orthodox Church in ... Read More
Fifth anniversary of the temple restoration was celebrated in the Dormition church in Beijing
The Chinese Orthodox Church - October 2014 BEIJING, Oct. 19. / TASS Correspondent Andrej Kirillov /. Fifth anniversary was celebrated today at the restored church ... Read More
Russian Church urges Uniates to stop subversive activities against it in Ukraine
Moscow, October 17, Interfax - The Moscow Patriarchate official urges Greek Catholics to abstain from participating in Ukrainian politics and supporting schismatics in the country. ... Read More
Patriarch of All the Northern Lands
October 2014 At a press conference in Moscow on 24 September, His Holiness Patriarch Kyrill answered questions from journalists about the Church. Particular attention was ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill Thanks Vladimir Putin for His Attention to the Church
Pravmir.ru - October 2014 October 7. His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill, congratulated Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, on his birthday. The press office of the Moscow Patriarchate ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates in the Church of the Holy Spirit at the Laura of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius on his commemoration day
October 2014 On 8 October 2014, the commemoration day of St. Sergius, hegumen of Radonezh and Wonderworker of All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman ... Read More
Virtual tour of exhibition dedicated to New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia opened on the website of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University
Pravoslavie.ru - October 2014 A virtual tour of the exhibition, “Overcoming: the Russian Church and the Soviet government” has opened on the website of the St. ... Read More
Memorial to victims of repression may be set up in a monastery near Moscow
October 2014 - Pravoslavie.ru Representatives of the public are proposing to set up a new memorial on the territory of the St. Catherine’s Monastery in ... Read More
Rally in defense of the family values takes place in Tallin
October 2014 - Pravoslavie.ru A large rally in defense of family values and against passage of the civil partnership law (which will recognize same-sex unions) ... Read More
DECR VICE-CHAIRMAN MEETS WITH DELEGATION OF TURKEY’S PRESIDENCY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS
On 1 October 2014, Archimandrite Philaret, vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with a delegation of the Presidency of ... Read More
Best Pro-life journalists chosen in Moscow
October 2014 The Belarusian news portal Sobor.by ranked third according to the results of the journalist prolife contest held by the organizing committee of the ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill denies being vehicle of Kremlin policy
Moscow, September 25, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia rejected accusations of being a vehicle of the Kremlin's policy. “In some countries, ... Read More
“There is no need to improve relations between the Orthodox and the Muslim world”
Photo: http://en.apa.az 30/9/14 Moscow. Farid Akbarov - APA. "There is no need to improve relations between the Orthodox and the Muslim world. Because the relations ... Read More
Synod of Estonian Orthodox Church holds its regular session
On 16 September 2014, a regular session of the Synod of the Estonian Orthodox Church took place in Tallinn under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Kornily ... Read More
Russian Post Issue Stamps with portrait of St. Sergius of Radonezh
September 2014 September 17, 2014. A set of envelopes with a stamp dedicated to the 700th anniversary of St. Sergius' birth (1314-1392) was released on ... Read More
Sts Martha and Mary Convent in Moscow decorated with a Japanese symbol
September 2014 Moscow, September 18, Interfax - Symbolic action Flower road between Japan and Russia took place in Sts Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with president of the Conference of European Rabbis
On September 12, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met at the DECR with Moscow’s Chief ... Read More
Orthodox Christian radio to start broadcasting in Moscow from September 14
15/9/14 Radio Vera, an Orthodox Christian radio station, will start broadcasting at a frequency of 100.9FM in Moscow on September 14, Interfax reports.The radio station ... Read More
International forum on “The Large Family and the Future of Humanity” opens in Moscow
On September 10, 2014, an international forum on “The Large Family and the Future of Humanity” was opened at the State Kremlin Palace. The participants ... Read More
Idea of Russian world not means of enslaving Ukraine – Patriarch Kirill
Moscow, September 8, Interfax - The idea of a Russian world is not a means of enslaving Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia ... Read More