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24.07.2014 19:15
Metropolitan Hilarion receives birthday congratulations from Local Orthodox Churches
On July 24, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted-at-Bolshaya-Ordynka in Moscow.
22.07.2014 14:26
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk visits Kyrgyzstan
On 21-22 July 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited Kyrgyzstan with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
21.07.2014 17:04
Hegumen Arseniy (Sokolov), representative of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, celebrates prayer service at Russian embassy in Damascus
The district, in which the Embassy is located, came under mortar fire the day before. As a result, four citizens of the Syrian capital were killed.
21.07.2014 16:34
Construction of Orthodox chapel of St. Olaf begins in Stiklestad
On 16 July 2014, the foundation of the Orthodox chapel of St. Olaf, King of Norway, was laid in Stiklestad (100 km from Trondheim). The chapel is being built at the site of the death of “Norway’s Eternal King”. St. Olaf, the heavenly patron of Norway, died in 1030.
21.07.2014 16:25
Primate of Orthodox Church in America leads celebrations at Patriarchal cathedral in New York to mark 700th anniversary of the birth of St. Sergius of Radonezh
On 20 July 2014, a solemn Divine Service was celebrated at St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York. Thus the Patriarchal parishes in the USA concluded the celebrations marking the 700th anniversary of the birth of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
21.07.2014 10:28
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s condolence to Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mr. Najib Tun Razak
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent a message to Mr. Mohd. Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia, in which he expressed his condolences over a Malaysian airliner crash in the airspace over eastern Ukraine.
21.07.2014 10:18
DECR chairman’s condolence to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands over plane crash in eastern Ukraine
Metropolitan Hilarion of Vokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, sent a message to His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, in which he expressed his condolences over the plane crash in eastern Ukraine. As a result of the tragedy, 298 people died, most of them…
20.07.2014 23:11
Metropolitan Hilarion: we should zealously pray for an end of fratricidal battle in Ukraine
With a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, a fervent prayer for peace in Ukraine is tirelessly lifted up in all the churches and monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church.
19.07.2014 20:59
Moscow Patriarchate representative to Patriarch of Antioch meets with Syria’s Grand Mufti
They discussed the humanitarian aid to the Syrian people including organization of Russian holidays for children of servicemen who died in Syria in the course of the armed conflict and for inmates of the Orthodox orphanages in the Valley of Christians near Latakia and at the convent in the Maalula…
19.07.2014 13:02
Representatives of Local Orthodox Churches visit Convent of Protecting Veil of the Mother of God in Khotkovo
In the afternoon of July 18, 2014, the representatives of the Local Orthodox Churches, who participated in the celebrations marking the 700th anniversary of the birth of St. Sergius of Radonezh, visited the Stavropegic Convent of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God in Khotkovo and the Sofrino art…