Inter-Christian relations
09.02.2018 14:37
Interreligious working group completes unprecedented humanitarian action in Syria and Lebanon
On 9 February 2018, the delegation of the Interreligious working group of Russia’s Presidental Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations completed its visit to Syria and Lebanon.
07.02.2018 8:39
DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations meets with Apostolic Nuncio to Syria
The meeting took place at the Nunciature in Damascus on 5 February 2018.
07.02.2018 7:49
Religious leaders from Russia visit Syrian orphans
On 5 February 2018, the delegation of the Interreligious working group of Russia’s Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations continued its visit to Syria.
06.02.2018 11:24
Russian religious communities carry out a humanitarian action in Syria unprecedented in its scale
On February 4, 2018, the delegation of the interreligious working group under the Russian President’s Council carried out a major action for distribution of humanitarian aid to suffering people in Syria.
04.02.2018 9:58
Representatives of religious communities of Syria and Russia meet in Damascus
On 3 February 2018, a delegation of the Working Group for Rendering Aid to the People of Syria of Russia’s Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations began its visit to Syria and Lebanon, which will be completed on February 9.
31.01.2018 12:10
Round table on inter-confessional exchange of experience in social ministry takes place at Department for External Church Relations
On 26 January 2018, a round table on Social Ministry of Religious Communities – Inter-Confessional Exchange of Experience was held at the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations within the framework of the 26th International Christmas Educational Readings.
25.01.2018 16:45
A church is leased to the Russian Orthodox Church in Portugal
During his archpastoral visit to the parishes in Portugal on 18-21 January 2018, Bishop Nestor of Korsun met with Cardinal Manuel José Clementi, Patriarch of Lisbon, at the premises of the Catholic archdiocese.
18.01.2018 8:28
DECR chairman meets with Bishop Jonathan Goodall of Ebbsfleet
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) met with Bishop Jonathan Goodall of Ebbsfleet, Church of England, at the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies.
15.01.2018 9:36
DECR chairman meets with Apostolic Nuncio in Russia
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk received the Holy See representative in the Russian Federation, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, after the Divine Liturgy at the parish house of the church of the Icon ‘The Joy to All the Afflicted’-in-Bolshaya-Ordynka.
11.01.2018 17:02
DECR chairman meets with the Ordinary of the Armenian Catholic Church of Eastern Europe-Georgia
On 11 January 2018, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Archbishop Raphael Minassian, Ordinary of the Armenian Catholic Church of Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Eastern Europe.