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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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Patriarch Kirill celebrates Divine Liturgy in Beijing

May 15, 2013 Featured News

On May 12, 2013, the second Sunday after Pascha, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the territory of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Beijing in which the Russian Orthodox Mission in China used to be. The Primate of the Russian Church was assisted by Metropolitan [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Church offers concert of sacred Russian Orthodox music and folk songs

March 20, 2013 News

The Times - 20/3/13 PARK FOREST | Lyra, an a cappella group of five professional vocalists from St. Petersburg, Russia, will present a concert of Russian choral and folk music at 7:30 p.m. April 15 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 2901 Western Ave. The first part of the concert, sacred music of the Russian Orthodox Church, includes [...]

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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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A guide to the interior of a Russian Orthodox church

March 4, 2013 News

Joy Neumeyer at 04/03/2013 20:00 Just over a year ago, when Pussy Riot made its “punk prayer” inside Christ the Savior Cathedral, the English-language press was flooded with images of women in bright knitted masks – and iffy translations of church terminology. Many newspapers reported that the women performed on the church’s altar, when they were actually [...]

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Russian Church official attacks Stalin but says Soviet history is not all bad

March 4, 2013 Featured News

4/3/12 A top Russian Orthodox cleric has praised the Russian people for disrupting Stalin’s plan to change the historical course of Russia, but at the same time called for not all Soviet history to be painted black. “I doubt that Stalin wanted Russia to return to its roots, he sincerely lived by the ideals of [...]

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