March 2010

30/3/2010 Hundreds of people have gathered at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow today to pray for the souls of those who died in twin suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro during the morning rush hour on Monday. The memorial service was led by Archbishop Arseniy of Istra. People continue to bring flowers [...]

30/03/2010 Egypt’s Coptic church announced that it has invited Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a possible contender for the Egyptian presidency, to attend Easter celebrations next Saturdays. The church assured that the invitation is not political, saying that ElBaradei was invited because he is a prominent scientific figure [...]

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29/3/2010 Russian Church Outside Russia The Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral hosted this year’s Pastoral Conference on the 4th week of the Great Fast (March 8-9, 2010). Clergy from parishes throughout the diocese arrived late in the evening on the Sunday of the Cross and gathered at a reception that was hosted at His Grace, Bishop [...]

30/3/2010 The honorary title ‘doctor honoris causa’ of Burgas Free University will be conferred to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, decided the academic council at the university. The proposal for bestowing the title was made by PhD Petko Chobanov – president of the university. He has sent an invitation to Patriarch Bartholomew to attend the official ceremony, [...]

Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate 03/27/10 The National Geographic Magazine in its special issue on ‘Water’ featured a baptism at the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The caption of the photo states: “To be baptized is to be born into a new life in Christ, according to the Greek Orthodox Church. Seven-month-old Stellios Theodore Gikas is dipped three [...]

Patriarchate of Jerusalem 30/03/2010 The day of Holy Saturday with the ceremony of the Holy Fire is in the cycle of feasts of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem as one of the holiest, most emotionally moving and consequently, most participated in by numerous pilgrims. On this day from the early hours of dawn the pilgrims from [...]

29/3/2010 KYIV — Commenting on the results of the recent session of the Committee of Inter-Conciliar Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church on the issue of counteracting and overcoming schisms held in Kyiv on March 25, 2010, the representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) touched also upon the situation regarding the Ukrainian Greek [...]

Moscow, March 29, 2010 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia made the following statement on the terrorist acts at the Moscow Metro on 29 March 2010. My heart pains over the terrorist acts at the Moscow Metro this morning. I am praying for the rest of the victims’ souls, for consolation of [...]

Moscow, March 29, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will pray for each person killed or injured in the Moscow tube. “His Holiness the Patriarch asked to give him the list of all killed and suffered so that he could personally pray for each person,” head of the Russian Church Department for [...]

03/26/2010 Orthodox Church in America To the Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy, Monastics, and Faithful of The Orthodox Church in America Beloved in Christ, Fathers and concelebrants, brothers and sisters, Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen! I greet you with joy in the Risen Lord! Having passed the course of the Fast, let us [...]

Inter-Orthodox Relations Ecumenical Patriarchate-Russian Orthodox Church 28.03.2010 Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, and his party visited on 27 March 2010 the Patriarchate of Constantinople. At the patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, they venerated the honourable relics of Sts Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. Then Metropolitan [...]