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17.01.2021 20:06
Metropolitan Hilarion: to repent means to change your way of life
(Russian) 17 января 2020 года, в Неделю 32-ю по Пятидесятнице, пред Богоявлением, председатель Отдела внешних церковных связей Московского Патриархата митрополит Волоколамский Иларион совершил Божественную литургию в столичном храме в честь иконы Божией Матери «Всех скорбящих Радость» на Большой Ордынке.
17.01.2021 17:05
Metropolitan Hilarion: Extremists’ actions brought about serious imbalance in centuries-old Christian-Muslim relations in the Syrian land
For many centuries Christians lived in the Syrian land together with Muslims; yet, the invasion of terrorists who at the onset of the war in Syria started to seize cities, towns and villages, brought about a very serious imbalance in these centuries-old relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the…
17.01.2021 14:53
Metropolitan Hilarion: American politicians are unashamed to say that they openly interfere in interchurch relations
Such opinion was expressed by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, who in the Church and the World TV-programme commented on the remark by Mike Pompeo.
15.01.2021 1:11
Primates of Local Orthodox Churches send condolences over demise of the Honorary Exarch of All Belarus Metropolitan Philaret
Metropolitan Philaret (Vakhromeyev), Honorary Exarch of All Belarus, age 85, passed in the Lord on 12th January 2021. His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II, His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland, and His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia expressed condolences…
14.01.2021 19:30
On the day of his episcopal consecration Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates Divine Liturgy in church of Martyrs and Confessors Michael and Theodore of Chernigov
On January 14, 2021, the Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord and the commemoration day of St. Basil the Great, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, rector of Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute for Post-Graduate Studies, celebrated the Divine Liturgy of…
13.01.2021 19:09
Christmas services celebrated for Russian communities in Turkish cities
On 7th January 2021, the Christmas Liturgy was celebrated at the Church of Ss. Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles, located in the territory of the summer residence of Russia’s Consulate General in Istanbul. Officiating at the divine service was Rev. Georgy Sergeyev, acting rector of the church, who is responsible for taking…
13.01.2021 16:57
The Faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Build within Seven Months a New Church to Replace the One Seized in the Village of Rakov Les
On 10th January 2021 the bishop of Kamin-Kashyrskyi Athanasius, an auxiliary of the diocese of Volhynia, came to congratulate on the occasion of Christ’s Nativity the persecuted community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the village of Rakov Les in the region of Kamin-Kashyrskyi.
13.01.2021 15:37
Representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus to the Patriarchal Throne of Antioch Presents as Gifts Wheelchairs for Syrian Children
On 13th January 2021 the representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus to the Patriarchal Throne of Antioch hegumen Arseny (Sokolov) visited in Damascus the Amal School for Disabled Children where he met with the school’s director Mosab al-Kanj, teachers and students, and presented as a gift to…
09.01.2021 22:48
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s condolences over passenger plane crash in the Java Sea
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expressed condolences to the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Mr. Joko Widodo, over the Sriwijaya Air passenger plane crash in the Java Sea near Jakarta.
08.01.2021 14:00
Representatives of Russian Ecclesiastical Mission congratulate Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem on the Nativity of Christ
On January 8, Archimandrite Alexander and members of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission attended a traditional reception given at the Great Hall of the Throne of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem along with the Consul General of Greece in Jerusalem Evangelos Vlioras, hierarchs of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem and clerics of…