Friday, November 6, 2009

St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology- University of Balamand The Dean of the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology, Dr. Georges Nahas, visited Romania during the period of 13-19 October 2009, upon the invitation of Fr. Dr. Savva Viorel, the Dean of the Faculty of Theology, at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of [...]

Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, on a visit to Kosovo and Methochia at the invitation of Bishop Artemije of Rasko-Prizren and Kosovo-Metochia, visited the convent compound ‘The Patriarchate of Pec’ 30 October 2009. The convent was built in the 13th century by Archbishop Arseny, a successor [...]

Archbishop Hilarion’s book entitled Patriarch Kirill. His Life and World Outlook in the series “Patriarchs of the Russian Church’ has come out. It has been written in response to numerous requests from both church people and those who are far from the Church but who are interested in the personality of the new Patriarch of [...]

MOSCOW, November 3 (RIA Novosti) – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church, and Vyacheslav Nikonov, executive director of the Russkiy Mir Foundation, signed a cooperation agreement on Tuesday. The two will implement a joint publishing program and assist schools attached to foreign-based parishes, the foundation’s press service said. [...]

Moscow, November 3, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia proposed a set of measures to study the Russian language within the Russian-speaking communities worldwide. “The Russian language is an important element of communications within the Russian world. We should take our best efforts to maintain and expand this common heritage,” Patriarch said [...]

Moscow, November 5, Interfax – Requiem service for all victims of the revolution 1917, the civil war and fratricidal fighting Russian people went through in the 20th century was conducted in the Moscow Church of Our Lady of the Sign in the Roman Pereulok. Head of the Synodal Church and Society Department Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin [...]

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary November 6, 2009 YONKERS, NY—St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary welcomed two prestigious guests from Russia to its campus this fall: the Minister for Justice of the Russian Federation and the President of The International Foundation for the Unity of Orthodox Christian Nations (IFUOCN). Both Russian visitors were drawn to campus [...]