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Russian Patriarch Conducts Service In Beijing

May 13, 2013 Featured News

12/5/13 Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has performed a service in Beijing during his first-ever visit to neighboring China. The service was performed on May 12 amid tight security in a tent on the grounds of the Russian Embassy with some 300 people in attendance. On May 10, Kirill met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and [...]

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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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Continued violence in Syria will lead to humanitarian catastrophe – Russian Patriarch Kirill

March 16, 2013 Featured News

15/3/13 Russian Patriarch Kirill has warned that continued violence in Syria will create a humanitarian catastrophe, cost countless lives and leave the country in ruins. Emerging from a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Moscow Friday, he also pointed out that the Syrian crisis can only be resolved through a peaceful dialogue. This Friday [...]

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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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Most Russians see Patriarch Kirill as national spiritual leader – poll

November 20, 2012 Featured News

Moscow, November 20, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is known to most Russians, and 62% of citizens polled recently know his name, the VTsIOM pollster told Interfax. Most respondents best informed about the Russian Patriarch are pensioners or citizens of pre-pension age (respectively 72% and 71%), and also citizens with a [...]

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Mahmoud Abbas meets Russian Patriarch in Bethlehem

November 11, 2012 Featured News

10/11/2012 President Mahmoud Abbas visited Bethlehem on Saturday to welcome Patriarch of the Orthodox church of Moscow and Russia Kirill I, who is in the holy land to pray for peace Maan reported. Abbas and the patriarch headed to the Church of the Nativity and to the place where Kirill laid a foundation stone for [...]

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Jerusalem Meets Russian Patriarch Kirill

November 10, 2012 Featured News

10/11/2012 JERUSALEM, November 10 (RIA Novosti) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who arrived in Jerusalem on Friday, was accompanied by a solemn procession of clerics and laypeople on his way from the Jaffa Gate to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre inside the Old City. [...]

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Russian Patriarch Arrives in Japan

September 15, 2012 Featured News

Russian Patriarch visits Japan 15/9/2012 Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church who is on a visit to Japan has visited the Sendai Orthodox diocese which was badly hit by the earthquake and tsunami in March last year. He gave the local priests money for buying church utencils. The Patriarch started his visit to Sendai [...]

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Russian Patriarch Blesses New Church Outside FSB Academy

August 2, 2012 Featured News

2/8/2012 Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has blessed the cornerstone of a new Orthodox church outside the walls of the academy of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in western Moscow. According to a press statement by the Patriarchate, the new church is being constructed “at the initiative of the leadership and students” of the academy. The [...]

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Historic visit by Moscow Patriarch

June 9, 2012 Featured News

Kristina Boudylina 9/6/2012 CYPRUS welcomed Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev of Moscow who arrived yesterday for an official visit at the invitation of Archbishop Chrysostomos II. The Russian Patriarch arrived on a special flight at 12pm for a four-day visit accompanied by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Bishop Solnechnogorsk Sergei and other clergies and dignitaries of the Russian [...]

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Russian Patriarch awarded honorary degree of University of Library Studies and Information Technology

April 29, 2012 News

29/4/2012 Sofia. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has been awarded an honorary degree of the University of Library Studies and Information Technology, FOCUS News Agency reported. The degree was presented by the university rector, professor Stoyan Denchev. Patriarch Kirill received also a gift from the university management – a picture of the Russian [...]

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Thousands of Bulgarians Meet Russian Patriarch in Plovdiv

April 29, 2012 Featured News

28/4/2012 Thousands of people met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in the center of Bulgaria’s second largest city of Plovdiv, chanting “Russia” and accompanying clerics in their procession with church banners. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who arrived in Bulgaria on a visit on Friday, earlier on Saturday met with President [...]

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Bulgarian and Russian orthodox churches can play role of a bridge between the two nations: Russian Patriarch

April 27, 2012 News

Focus News Agency 26/4/2012 Our two churches are brotherly churches, with very close historical, cultural and spiritual bonds, which date back into the past, Patriarch Kirill of Russia and All Moscow said in an interview with Bulgarian television TV7 ahead of his visit to Bulgaria between 27 and 29 April. Our two churches are brotherly [...]

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Orthodox Church under attack: Russian Patriarch

April 24, 2012 Featured News
Members of the Orthodox clergy walk in procession after a call to prayer in support of the Orthodox Church at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow April 22, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Denis Sinyakov

By Alissa de Carbonnel 23/4/2012 (Reuters) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church warned tens of thousands of believers on Sunday they were “under attack by persecutors” on a nationwide day of prayer intended to heal divisions over a protest at the altar by a women’s punk band. At least 40,000 people came to [...]

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Russian Patriarch Says Punk Band ‘Desecrated’ Church

March 26, 2012 News
Yekaterina Samutsevich, a member of the punk band Pussy Riot, appears in Tagansky District Court, Moscow.

25/3/2012 Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill says a female punk band desecrated the Cathedral of Christ the Savior when they stormed the church and performed. Members of the band Pussy Riot said the action on February 4 was to protest the patriarch’s support for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin who won reelection as president on March [...]

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Russian Patriarch Votes For ‘Stability’

March 4, 2012 News

3/3/2012 The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church said he was hoping for a continuation of the country’s “peaceful development” as he cast his vote in presidential elections on Sunday. “Let Our Fatherland continue its peaceful, calm, purposeful and consistent development both in the spiritual and material fields as a result of the elections,” Patriarch Kirill [...]

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Russian Patriarch Arrives in Bulgaria for Easte

February 27, 2012 News

26/2/2012 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill is to visit Bulgaria in April around the Easter holiday. The new was announced Saturday by the Bulgarian Holy Synod. While in the country, Kirill will meet with President, Rosen Plevneliev, Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, and the Speaker of the Parliament, Tsetska Tsacheva. He will [...]

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Russian Patriarch’s Visit To Kyrgyzstan Postponed Again

December 1, 2011 News

1/12/2011 BISHKEK — A planned visit to Kyrgyzstan by the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill I, has been postponed again, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports. The Russian Orthodox Church’s Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan Diocese secretary, Archpriest Igor Dronov, told RFE/RL that the exact date of Kirill’s visit to Kyrgyzstan was not yet certain. The [...]

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Russian Patriarch calls for spiritual Unity

July 29, 2011 News

Milena Faustova 29/7/2011 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill has finished his visit to Ukraine. In Ukraine’s capital Kiev, he took part in the Day of Christianization celebrations on July 28. On this day, the Orthodox Church commemorates Prince Vladimir, who Christianized Russia in the year 988. Ending his visit, the Patriarch [...]

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Russian Patriarch prays violence ends against Christians in Egypt

May 10, 2011 News

Moscow, May 10 (Interfax) – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed his condolences over the deaths of Christians and church fires in Giza on May 7 and 8 as a result of clashes between Muslims and Christians. “The Easter joy over the resurrection of Jesus Christ was marred by sad news coming [...]

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Georgian patriarchy to send letter to Russian Patriarch

December 3, 2010 News

03.12.2010 N.Kirtzkhalia The Georgia patriarchy is preparing a special letter for the Russian patriarchy about the unauthorized reconstruction of an 11th-century Georgian church in Abkhazia. The Ilorskoy Dome of Saint George’s Church was rebuilt. A dome in the Russian Orthodox Church was placed on the church instead of the Georgian dome. All of the Georgian [...]

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Georgian Church ‘Surprised’ Over Russian Patriarch’s S.Ossetia Move

September 27, 2010 News

25/9/2010 Head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Ilia II, told Russia’s Patriarch Kirill in a letter released on September 25 that it was a surprise to learn that he had congratulated Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia on “independence day” last week. The news that “you have sent a message of congratulation to self-styled President of South [...]

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Religious factor must be strengthened in bilateral relations – Russian Patriarch tells Ukrainian PM

May 2, 2009 News

Moscow, April 29, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has said that the development of relations with Ukraine ranks among his priorities and that the religious factor must be strengthened in bilateral relations.Relations between Ukraine and Russia “are the central, not peripheral task,” the Patriarch said during talks with Ukrainian Prime Minister [...]

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Lukashenko: Pope hopes to meet with Russian Patriarch soon

May 2, 2009 News

Rome, April 28, Interfax – Pope Benedict XVI is hoping his meeting with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia may take place in the nearest future, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in Rome on Tuesday while summing up the results of his visit to the Vatican.”The Pope said literally the following: ‘Maybe God will [...]

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