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Head of Russian church urges monks to shun Internet

June 8, 2013 News

8/6/13 MOSCOW (Reuters) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged monks not to use cellphones to access the Internet in order to avoid temptation. “Now the Internet appears to be a great temptation,” Patriarch Kirill said during a trip to the Zograf monastery in Greece, according to a transcript of his remarks posted on the church’s website. “Many [...]

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Primates of the Church of Jerusalem and the Russian Orthodox Church consecrate the Naval Cathedral of St Nicholas in Kronstadt

May 29, 2013 News

On May 28, 2013, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and All Palestine and His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia consecrated the Naval Cathedral of St Nicholas in Kronstadt after its extensive restoration and celebrated the Divine Liturgy in it. In Anchor Square at the Cathedral, the heads of the two [...]

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On the Day of Ss Cyril and Methodius, Primates of the Church of Jerusalem and the Russian Orthodox Church celebrate Divine Liturgy in the Kremlin Church of the Assumption

May 29, 2013 Featured News

On May 24, 2013, the commemoration day of Ss Cyril and Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Teachers of the Slavs (Patriarch Kirill’s name day), and the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral of [...]

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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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Primate of Russian Orthodox Church meets with religious figures of China

May 15, 2013 Featured News

  On 13 May 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who is on his visit to China, met with religious leaders of the People’s Republic of China at the headquarters of the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA). Taking part in the meeting was Mr. Zhang Lebin, deputy director-general of the [...]

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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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Father Serge Arlievsky, deacon of Russian Orthodox church, in shock of ethnicity of bombing suspects

April 20, 2013 News

20/4/13 NANUET -  The deacon of a Russian Orthodox church is in shock after authorities said ethnic Chechens are responsible for the Boston Marathon attacks. Father Serge Arlievsky, deacon of the Novo-Diveevo Russian Orthodox Church in Nanuet, says when he heard about the ethnicity of the suspects, he thought politics, religion and terrorism may have [...]

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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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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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Patriarch Kirill chairs a regular meeting of the Supreme Church Council

April 16, 2013 News

On April 12, 2013, the Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church met for a regular meeting at the Supreme Church Council Hall in the Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. The meeting was chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. He made introductory remarks. Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk [...]

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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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‘Weeping’ icon visits Watervliet

April 13, 2013 Featured News
Father Athanasy Mastalski of St. Tikhon

13/4/13 WATERVLIET — St. Basil’s Russian Orthodox Church displayed the streaming Icon of St. Anna on Friday. According to information from St. Tikhons Monastery (sttikhonsmonastery.org), in May 2004, the icon began to stream myrrh in the Russian Orthodox Church of Our Lady of Joy of All Who Sorrow in Philadelphia. A parishioner reported the icon, which depicts the Mother [...]

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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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No religious split-lines, ROC says to Abkhaz

April 1, 2013 Featured News

1/4/13 Tbilisi, DFWatch – Abkhaz de facto leader was evidently informed that Russian Orthodox Church, unlike the Kremlin which recognized Abkhazia as an independent country, wouldn’t tolerate drawing ecclesiastical borders along political split-lines, at least formally. During a meeting in Sochi, Russian resort city just few kilometers from breakaway Abkhazia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman [...]

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“Humility and charisma,” the Russian Orthodox Church welcomes the election of Pope Francis

March 14, 2013 Featured News

14/3/13 Moscow (AsiaNews) – The Russian Orthodox Church has warmly welcomed the election of Card. Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis, and hope for a continuation of the policies of Pope Benedict XVI in the development of relations between Catholics and Orthodox. “The new Pope – said the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church’s position on possible Patriarch-Pope meeting unchanged

March 13, 2013 Featured News

Moscow, March 13, Interfax – In light of the ongoing elections in the Vatican, the Moscow Patriarchate says that its position regarding a possible meeting between the Patriarch and the Pope remains unchanged. “As concerns a meeting with the Pope, our position is simple and unchanged: such a meeting cannot be held just for the [...]

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The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church meets in session chaired by Patriarch Kirill

March 13, 2013 News

March 12, 2013, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has met for a regular session at the Synod’s Hall at the synodal and patriarchal residence in the St. Daniel Monastery, Moscow. It is chaired by His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. The permanent members of the Holy Synod are Metropolitans [...]

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Orthodox cathedral to be built in Estonian city

March 11, 2013 News

11/3/13 The ceremony of laying down the first stone of an Orthodox cathedral and a religious procession in connection with this occasion took place in the Estonian city of Narva on Sunday. It is planned that the construction of the cathedral’s walls and cupola will be finished somewhere in September 2013. According to preliminary estimations, [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan Protest attacks on Christians in Lahore – Exclusive

March 11, 2013 Featured News

11/3/13 The Russian Orthodox Church of Pakistan  Hyderabad-Pakistan: The entire parish of St Anthony’s Orthodox church , Hyderabad, Sindh Pakistan, with Fr Anthony demonstrate outside the Hyderabad Press club against the killings of Christians in Pakistan two days ago.   Source: OCP News Service

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Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria receives delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church

February 27, 2013 News

On February 26, 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with His Holiness Neofit, Patriarch of Bulgaria, and members of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Patriarchate. Participating in the meeting were Metropolitans Dometian of Vidin, Kiril of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Joseph of America, Canada [...]

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Pope resigns – implications for Russian Orthodox Church

February 12, 2013 News

12/2/13 The Vatican announced on Monday that Pope Benedict XVI is to resign, stunning 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide. VoR looks into what implications this will have for the negotiations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church. Relations have been tense for nearly 1,000 years between the Eastern and Western branches of Christianity [...]

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Tolstoy’s Relation to the Russian Orthodox Church

February 5, 2013 Featured News

Amanda Graber, Demand Media – 5/2/13 One of Russia’s towering literary figures, Leo Tolstoy wrote many celebrated novels and short stories in the late nineteenth century.  Some of his best-known works include War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. His astounding legacy is revered by students of literature worldwide — although [...]

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The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Opens at Christ the Savior Cathedral

February 3, 2013 Featured News

On February 2, 2013, the Hall of Church Councils of Christ the Savior   Cathedral in Moscow was the setting for the opening of the Holy Council   of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, which includes archpastors   of the Moscow Patriarchate in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan,   Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Latvia, Lithuania, Tajikistan, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan,   Estonia, as [...]

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Russian Patriarch Urges Church Presence in Social Networks

February 3, 2013 Featured News

3/2/13 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti) – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on Saturday lamented a high number of antichurch internet posts and said the Russian Orthodox Church he leads should be present in social networks to tell the truth to its audience. “Blogs and social networks give us new opportunities for the [...]

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Holy Synod of Russian Orthodox Church begins its first session in 2013

January 31, 2013 News

On 30 January 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia chaired the first in 2013 session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. The session is being held at the Synod’s Hall of the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery. Taking part in the session are permanent members [...]

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