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Patriarch Kirill says pilgrimage development from Russia to help Greece to cope with crisis

June 10, 2013 News

Athens, June 4, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said he urged to develop religious tourism in the Russian-Greek relations. “Pilgrimage is not seasonal tourism, not people going to the seaside, so they can come at any time. If pilgrimage is successfully enhanced, then this will have spiritual meaning, will bring us [...]

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Senior Athos monk praises Russia, urges global Orthodox unity

June 7, 2013 Featured News

Mount Athos, June 7, Interfax – The abbot of the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, Archimandrite Ephraim, praised Russia and called for global Orthodox unity. “Even though it has been nearly a year and a half, our taking the Cincture of the Theotokos to Russia, the main relic of our monastery, is still fresh in [...]

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Primates of the Orthodox Churches of Greece and Russia celebrate Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. Panteleimon in Athens

June 4, 2013 Featured News

On 2 June 2013, the fifth Sunday after Pascha, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and His Beatitude Archbishop Hieronymos II of Athens and All Greece celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Chu5ch of St. Panteleimon in Athens. Concelebrating were ordained members of the Moscow Patriarchate delegation, Metropolitan Prokopios of Philippe, Neapolis [...]

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Primates of the Orthodox Church of Greece and Russia meet in Athens

June 4, 2013 News

In the evening of 1 June 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with His Beatitude Archbishop Hieronymos II of Athens and All Greece at the archbishop’s palace. His Beatitude Hieronymos told his guest about the historical building in which sessions of the Holy Synod take place. The Primate of the [...]

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Metropolitan Hilarion: No Women On Mt. Athos

June 3, 2013 Featured News

3/6/13 Hilarion, Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and  Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, revealed that Greece is under the pressure of international organizations to lift the prohibition on entry for women to Mount Athos, called avaton (Άβατον) in Greek. In a press release he issued on the occasion of [...]

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The 7th International Youth Forum “Faith and Deeds” is Held in Moscow

June 1, 2013 News

1/6/13 With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow hosted the 7th International Youth Forum “Faith and Deeds” on May 25, 2013. Its organizers were the Synodal Department on Youth Affairs jointly with the “Georgievsky” Union of Orthodox Youth. His Holiness welcomed the conference [...]

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His Holiness Karekin II Receives a Delegation from Russia’s Kursk Region

June 1, 2013 News

On May 26, in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, received a delegation from the Russian region of  Kursk.  The delegation was led by Mrs. Lyudmila Grebenkova, Deputy Governor, Chairman of the Domestic Policy Committee of Kursk. Mr. Aleksan Koshtoyan, Head of the Armenian [...]

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Russian police detain ‘Christian Orthodox vigilantes’ at gay rally

May 26, 2013 News

By Associated Press – 26/5/13 MOSCOW — Gay-rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital on Saturday, but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at that country’s first-ever gay pride march. Russian police said they arrested at least 30 gay rights campaigners and Christian Orthodox vigilantes in Moscow. The campaigners [...]

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Russian Foreign Ministry says U.S. State Department’s religious freedom report politicized

May 24, 2013 News

Moscow, May 24, Interfax – The 2012 international religious freedom report of the U.S. State Department has been done superficially and does not reflect the objective situation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “We are to conclude that the U.S. State Department has again presented a contorted and politicized picture of the situation in the religious [...]

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill presented church awards to Russia’s ambassador to China and to a number of Russian diplomats

May 21, 2013 Featured News

The Chinese Orthodox Church English translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas 20/5/13 On May 12, 2013 at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the People’s Republic there was a meeting of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Russian diplomats assigned to work in this country. In attention to the works for the good [...]

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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 I visits historical site of first Russian church in Beijing

May 13, 2013 Featured News

12/5/13 Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I who is making a visit to China on Sunday examine a Cross of white marble installed on the territory of the Russian Embassy in memory of the first Russians who came to live in Beijing. A plate placed at the foundation of the Cross contains the [...]

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Patriarch Lauds ‘Special Relationship’ in China Visit

May 11, 2013 Featured News

BEIJING, May 10 (RIA Novosti) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, has met with the Chinese President on the first day of his five-day visit to China. The Chinese President Xi Jinping has called the head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s visit to the country an [...]

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Chinese President Meets Russian Patriarch

May 11, 2013 Featured News

11/5/13 President Xi Jinping met with Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Friday. Xi said Chinese and Russian people are closely connected by a deep traditional friendship, as well as a realistic need for cooperation. Recalling his state visit to Russia in March at the invitation [...]

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Russian Patriarch Starts First-Ever Visit To China

May 11, 2013 Featured News

11/5/13 Russia’s Patriarch Kirill has started the first-ever visit to China by a leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. On May 10, the first day of his six-day visit, the patriarch met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. While in China, Kirill will meet with Orthodox believers at the Russian Embassy in Beijing and lead a [...]

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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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Serbia must not loosen ties with Russia in seeking to join EU – Patriarch

May 10, 2013 Featured News

Belgrade, May 7, Interfax – The primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church has insisted that Serbia must not loosen its ties with “great Russia” in pursuing its bid to join the European Union. “I hope that our political leaders know how to find a bridge into Europe that would guarantee peaceful and stable development for [...]

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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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Nazarbayev attends Easter service in Uspensky Cathedral

May 6, 2013 Featured News

6/5/13 Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Uspensky Cathedral, Kazakhstan’s major orthodox church, on Easter Sunday, Tengrinews.kz reports. “Dear fellow-countrymen, the whole Orthodox world is celebrating the most important holiday, the Easter, today. The Easter symbolizes renewal and rebirth and is important to our country that is reviving and becoming a better place, a new country where people [...]

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A 17th-Century Russian Community Living in 21st-Century Alaska

May 4, 2013 Featured News

Wendi Jonassen and Ryan Loughlin - 4/5/13 This clan has traveled from Russia through China, Brazil, and Oregon to make a home in the remote north, struggling to avoid modernization. On a Sunday afternoon, in the middle of a cold winter, members of Father Nikolai’s congregation and family gather in his living room for fish pie, [...]

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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 Church Construction in Strasbourg to Cost $7.9 Mln

April 17, 2013 Featured News

MOSCOW, April 16 (RIA Novosti) – The construction of an Orthodox church dedicated to All Saints and a Russian cultural center in Strasbourg will cost €6 million ($7.9 million), the Russian Orthodox Church’s envoy to the Council of Europe said Tuesday. “According to a preliminary assessment, some €6 million will be required, and construction may [...]

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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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