Thursday, August 6, 2009

BELGRADE — Today marks the 14th anniversary since a Croat military onslaught on the country’s Serb area of Krajina that ended in the murder of more than 2,000 people. The attack, known as Operation Storm, also saw over 200,000 Serbs driven out of Croatia as refugees. The Veritas center for documentation and information says that [...]

On August 5, 2009, on the commemoration of the Icon of the Mother of God of Pochayiv, the unprecedented number of pilgrims arrived from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. The Divine Liturgy was conducted by the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church in concelebration of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir, hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox …

The Order of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church dedicated to the memorable date – 450 years of bringing the Pochayiv Icon of the Mother of God to Volyn was conferred on the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church after the Divine Liturgy by His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir. On Wednesday, August 5, when the Orthodox Church venerates [...]

On August 5, 2009, upon completion of the Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Pochayiv Lavra the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church in his conversation with the journalists shared impressions of the pastoral visit to Ukraine. “The people keep ardent faith in their hearts”, His Holiness underscored, “and in spite of many difficulties and divisions, [...]