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30.07.2014 0:15
Orphans from Syria come to Russia for holidays at the invitation of St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation
About a hundred pupils, accompanied by their teachers, from the Orthodox orphanages at the monasteries of the Orthodox Church of Antioch, located in Saidnaya, Maaloula, Damascus, and the Valley of Christians, and from boarding schools for children of deceased servicemen, will spend two weeks in a children’s health camp in…
29.07.2014 11:49
Patriarch Irenaeus of Serbia thanks Patriarch Kirill for aid to victims of flood in Balkans
His Holiness Irenaeus, Patriarch of Serbia, has sent to His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, a letter expressing gratitude to the Primate and faithful of the Russian Orthodox Church for the support and aid raised and sent to the Serbian Orthodox Church for victims of the disastrous…
29.07.2014 11:27
Week of prayer for Ukraine to be held in diocese of Prague
The press service of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia’s diocese of Prague has reported that, with a blessing of Archbishop Joachim of Prague, daily prayers for peace in Ukraine will be lifted up from August 3 to 10, 2014, during the Divine Liturgy at one of…
28.07.2014 20:16
Patriarch Kirill celebrates the memory of St. Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles
On July 28, 2014, the commemoration day of the Holy Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles and the Day of the Baptism of Rus’, a public holiday in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral Church of Christ the Saviour…
28.07.2014 15:59
Metropolitan Hilarion speaks at a university post-graduates’ summer debate camp
A representative of the Russian Orthodox Church has taken part in the work of GAIDPARK school for the first time since it was founded three years ago.
27.07.2014 22:15
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volkolamsk: Reading of the Psalms for a Christian is a talk with God
On 27 July 2014, 7th Sunday after Pentecost, the commemoration day of the Holy Fathers of the Six Ecumenical Councils, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, rector of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute for Post-Graduate Studies, celebrated the Divine Liturgy…
26.07.2014 21:46
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk and representatives of Local Orthodox Churches celebrate Divine Service at Representation of Orthodox Church of Antioch in Moscow on feast day of the Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel
On 26 July 2014, feast day of the Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the Moscow Representation of the Patriarchate of Antioch, the Church of St. Gabriel the Archangel.
25.07.2014 14:32
ROC Holy Synod begins its regular session in St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow
On July 25, 2014, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has begun its regular session at the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow.
25.07.2014 13:42
Holy Synod members pray for the late Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine
The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine, 79, passed away in the Lord on July 5, 2014.
24.07.2014 22:44
Representative of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to Patriarch of Antioch and All the East meets with Patriarch of the Maronite Church
The Patriarch explained to Hegumen Arseny the complicated internal political situation in Lebanon and gave his assessment of the situation in the Middle East as a whole.