Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church prays for the victims of terrorist act at Domodedovo airport

On 26 January 2011, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia held a requiem litiya at his home chapel of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God for the victims of the terrorist act at the Domodedovo airport.

Praying at the service were Metropolitan Varsonofiy of Saransk and Mordovia, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; Archbishop Arseniy of Istra; Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administrative Secretariat; archpriest Vladimir Divakov, the Patriarch’s secretary for Moscow; and clergymen serving at the Moscow Patriarchate.

That same day, requiem services for the victims of the terrorist act were celebrated in all churches of the capital city, press office of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia reports.