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Russian Orthodox Church Will Never Recognize Same-Sex Marriages

May 22, 2013 News

21/5/13 A statement to this effect was made by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia during his meeting on Tuesday with Secretary-General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland. The Russian Orthodox Church is concerned because this sin, which existed at all times, is now being justified through the instruments of the law, the [...]

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Russian Activist Fined in Orthodox Church Slur Case

May 18, 2013 News

MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti/RAPSI) – A Moscow court fined the head of a consumer rights group 100,000 rubles (about $3,200) on Friday for libeling a Russian religious foundation. In an interview with Novaya Gazeta last September, Mikhail Anshakov, the head of Russia’s consumer rights watchdog, claimed the Christ the Savior Cathedral in downtown Moscow [...]

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Metropolitan Vladimir pleads that Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca does not authorize gay pride

May 17, 2013 Featured News

The Moldovan Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate  17/5/13 His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir addressed a message to General Mayor of Chisinau, Mr. Dorin Chirtoaca, pleading that the authorities do not allow the organization of a gay pride planned for the 19th of May. It is mentioned in the message: “The Metropolis of Chisinau and All Moldova continues to believe [...]

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Priests should return to Chinese Orthodox churches – Moscow Patriarchate

May 17, 2013 News

 Moscow, May 16, Interfax – The recent visit to China by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has exceeded even the most ambitious expectations, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, said. “Even a year or two ago, only a few people could have imagined that Patriarch Kirill would [...]

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Patriarch Kirill’s visit confirms “special quality” of Beijing-Moscow relations – Chinese president

May 14, 2013 News

Beijing, May 13, Interfax – Chinese President Xi Jinping has said he attaches great importance to the visit to China by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. “You are the first patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and Russia’s supreme religious leader to visit our country. It vividly demonstrates the high level and the [...]

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Patriarch Kirill praying for release of Syrian archbishops from captivity

May 10, 2013 Featured News

Moscow, April 23, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia hopes that Christian leaders abducted near the Syrian city of Aleppo will be released unharmed. “I am making all possible efforts now to facilitate the soonest possible release of the abducted archbishops from captivity. I am praying that the Lord keep them unharmed [...]

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Silence still shrouds kidnapped Orthodox prelates. Bishop of Aleppo: We’re groping in the dark

May 9, 2013 Featured News

05/08/2013 For Msgr. Jeanbart the act is inexplicable. The only certain thing is that no one knows where Msgr. Yohanna Ibrahim and Msgr. Boulos Yaziji are. Money, food, school, and spiritual comfort for the people of Aleppo plagued by war, famine and despair. Moscow and Washington seek a path of dialogue between rebels and regime. [...]

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‘Russia’s spiritual revival might inspire’ Western Europe

May 8, 2013 Featured News

7/5/13 The spiritual revival of Russia might inspire Christians in Western European countries that have adopted anti-religious laws’. This was stated by head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill after a service at the Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow to celebrate the anniversary of the return to the Church of the Iberian Mother of God [...]

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Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III To Visit Ukraine On April 23-24

April 20, 2013 Featured News

20/4/13 Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III intends to visit Ukraine to take part in an international conference “Kyiv inter-confessional forum” on April 23-24. Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate. Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III expressed his desire to visit Ukraine in a [...]

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Valdai: natural beauty and spiritual vision

April 20, 2013 News

William Brumfield, special to RBTH – 20/4/13 Just off the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway, Valdai today attracts visitors much as it did in the past – with its beautiful natural setting. Today, the road from Moscow to St. Petersburg is today an obstacle course but the road between Russia’s two capitals has occupied a distinctive place [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Highlights Links With Cuba

April 17, 2013 News

Moscow, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) Patriarch Kirill of Russian Orthodox Church expressed today satisfaction for the increasing development o relations with Cuba and recalled the cordial atmosphere prevailing during his visits to the Island. During a meeting with Cuban Ambassador Emilio Lozada at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, in Moscow, the orthodox leader highlighted [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church Official Stresses Importance of Dialogue with Islamic Iran

April 15, 2013 News

15/4/13 TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Foreign Relations Office of Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Hilarion in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Reza Sajjadi underlined the importance of holding talks with Islamic scholars in Iran. During the meeting, Hilarion declared that Orthodox church welcomes developing ties and cooperation with Iran, and expressed pleasure with high [...]

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Primate of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia Retires

April 14, 2013 Featured News

14/3/13 On April 12, 2013, the Moscow Patriarchate received an official communication regarding the session of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia that met that day. It reports that at that meeting His Beatitude, Christopher, Archbishop of Prague and Metropolitan of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, petitioned for [...]

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Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Iranian ambassador to Russia

April 12, 2013 News

On April 11, 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyed Mahmoud Reza, at the DECR. Participating in the meeting were also Deacon Dimitry Safonov, head of the inter-religious contacts office, and Mr. M. Palacio of the [...]

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Russia becomes definitive owner of cathedral building in Nice

April 12, 2013 News

Paris, April 11, Interfax – Russia has obtained definitive ownership rights to a church building in Nice under a ruling of France’s highest court on Wednesday, said members of the Russian Orthodox community in the Western European country. The Court of Cassation threw out an appeal from the Nice Russian Orthodox Cult Association (ACOR), which [...]

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Feminism could destroy Russia, Russian Orthodox patriarch claims

April 10, 2013 Featured News

Miriam Elder in Moscow 10/4/13 guardian.co.uk Kirill, head of church and close ally of Putin says feminist organisations ‘proclaim the pseudo-freedom of women’. Feminism is a “very dangerous” phenomenon that could lead to the destruction of Russia, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church has said. “I consider this phenomenon called feminism very dangerous, because feminist organisations [...]

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Metropolitan Philip II

April 3, 2013 Featured News

3/4/13 “He alone can in truth call himself sovereign who is master of himself, who is not subject to his passions and conquers by charity.” Born Theodore Kolychev, Metropolitan Phillip II of Moscow, a saint of the Orthodox Church, took the name Philip when he was tonsured a monk at the monastery of Solovki in [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan provides aid to Victims of Joseph colony

April 3, 2013 Featured News

Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan -ROCOR -Moscow Patriarchate 2/4/13   More Pics: Pakistan: It’s the prime responsibility of the church to provide pastoral care to the people of God. Therefore the Holy Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia Pakistan always lend hands to look after the Christians in Pakistan in the time need or time of [...]

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Abkhaz Leader Meets Georgian, Russian Top Orthodox Clerics

March 30, 2013 Featured News

Civil Georgia, Tbilisi – 29/3/13 Senior clerics from the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches met Abkhaz leader Alexander Ankvab in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi, close to breakaway Abkhazia, on March 28. News about the meeting was first reported by the Moscow Patriarchate’s foreign relations department in its press release on March 28. Georgian [...]

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Russian Orthodox tell Archbishop of Canterbury: ordain women bishops and you can forget about unity

March 27, 2013 Featured News

  Damian Thompson - 27/3/13 There’s a quaint Anglican concept of the universal Church known as the “branch theory”. This claims that there are three main branches to apostolic Christianity: Roman, Orthodox and Anglican. It’s much favoured by Church of England clerics who aren’t very keen on “Romans”, as they call Catholics, and convey their anti-Papist [...]

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Primate of the Russian Church celebrates at Christ the Saviour Cathedral on the Sunday of Orthodoxy

March 26, 2013 News

On 24 March 2013, the first Sunday in Lent known as the Sunday of Orthodoxy, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great and the Office of the Triumph of Orthodoxy in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral, press service of the Patriarch of Moscow and [...]

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Bringing Moscow spiritual authority to the North

March 23, 2013 Featured News

23/3/13 William Brumfield, special to RBTH Once a bulwark of the Muscovite state in the Russian North, today the Savior Prilutsky Monastery is both a historical site and center of worship. The 14th century was critical in many ways for the formation of the Muscovite state that would become the center of Russia. One of [...]

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Russian delegation to visit Georgia

March 22, 2013 Featured News

Georgia, Tbilisi,/ N. Kirtskhalia / – 22/3/13 Presentation of the GROS international center for humanitarian cooperation will be organized in Tbilisi on the initiative of Georgian and Russian scientists, artists, athletes and business community. An impressive delegation from Russia will head to Georgia for participation in this event. According to the organizers, this delegation will [...]

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Patriarch Kirill Gives Pope Mother of God Icon

March 22, 2013 News

The Moscow Times -22/3/13 A bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church has met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, where he presented him with the Mother of God icon and expressed hope that ties between the two churches would continue to improve, the church’s official website said. During the meeting on Wednesday, Hilarion Alfeyev, the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, extended [...]

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Vandal of Moscow Icons Released from Jail

March 20, 2013 Featured News

MOSCOW, March 19 (RIA Novosti) – A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced a man that vandalized icons in Russia’s largest Orthodox cathedral to a year of limited freedom, but released him for time served. The court found St. Petersburg resident Yury Piotrovsky guilty of “vandalism incited by religious hatred” for pouring ink on two icons [...]

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