Interreligious relations
06.05.2018 18:11
Patriarch Kirill sends greetings to participants in the 11th meeting of Joint Russian-Iranian Commission for Dialogue ‘Orthodox-Islam’
The 11th meeting of the Joint Russian-Iranian Commission for Dialogue ‘Orthodoxy-Islam’ took place on May 5-6, 2018, in Teheran. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent a message of greeting to the participants in the meeting.
03.04.2018 15:02
Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church visits Iraq
On 25-30 March 2018, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and on the instructions of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations, visited Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region…
28.03.2018 23:07
Metropolitan Hilarion receives Chairman of Doha International Dialogue Center
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met with the head of the Doha International Dialogue Center (DICID) and Qatar’s deputy minister of education, Prof. Ibrahim Al Naimi, at the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI).
27.03.2018 20:45
Meeting of the Interreligious Council of Russia takes place in Moscow
A regular meeting of the Interreligious Council of Russia (ICR) took place at the premises of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Moscow on March 27, 2018.
02.03.2018 9:52
DECR chairman takes part in international round table on Future of Christianity in the Middle East: Reality and Prognoses
On 1 March 2018, an international round table on the Future of Christianity in the Middle East: Reality and Prognoses took place in Moscow.
22.02.2018 0:33
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk chairs session of Commission for International Cooperation of Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations
On 21 February 2018, the Commission for International Cooperation of Russia’s Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations held its fourth session. The meeting which took place at the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations was chaired by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the DECR.
19.02.2018 23:02
Statement of Interreligious Council in Russia on attack against believers in Kizlyar
The Interreligious Council in Russia has issued a statement on the attack made on February 18, 2018, against believers who were coming out of the St. George church in Kizlyar. As a result of the shooting opened by a criminal five women were killed and several people were wounded.
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.
08.02.2018 10:38
Interreligious delegation from Russia holds meetings with Syrian state leaders
The visit of the interreligious delegation from Russia has attracted a broad attention of the Arab mass media. It members gave numerous interviews in intervals between meetings and held briefings to inform the mass media about the aims and tasks of their visit.
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.