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23.08.2010 17:07

Over 40 million roubles – Russian Orthodox Church’s aid to victims of fires

The Synodal Department for Charity and Social Service has raised 40 792 000 roubles, 37 930 US dollars and 5 601 euros in aid to victims of fires, Miloserdie.ru has reported on August 23.
22.08.2010 15:00

Patriarch Kirill marks the Day of Solovki Saints’ Assembly with Divine Liturgy at Cathedral of Transfiguration in Solovki monastery

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy on August 22, the Day of the Assembly of the Solovki Saints, at the Cathedral of the Holy Transfiguration in the Solovki Stauropegial Monastery.
20.08.2010 13:20

Russian Orthodox Church collects over 39 million roubles in aid to victims of wildfires

By August 20, the amount of 39 052 000 roubles, 26 254 US dollars and 5 451 euros has come to the accounts of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service by August 18, the Miloserdie.ru has reported.
19.08.2010 23:15

Patriarch Kirill begins his visit to Solovki monastery of Transfiguration

On August 19, 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived for a primatial visitation to the Solovki Islands.
18.08.2010 14:55

Chairman of Synodal Information Department on journalists’ assessment of Patriarch Kirill’s work

Nezavisimaya gazeta published on 18 August 2010 an article by V. Legoida, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Information Department, entitled ‘Why to Cipher the Patriarch?’ The text of the article is given below. The activity of Patriarch Kirill expressed in his speeches and trips to dioceses has sometimes provoked…
18.08.2010 11:13

DECR delegation arrives in Colombia

The trip is made with the support of the Russian World Foundation, Russian embassy in Colombia and Colombian embassy in Moscow.
17.08.2010 15:44

Fund for Assistance to Russian Church Abroad has collected over 20 thousand dollars in aid to homeless victims of fires

Since the beginning of the fund-raising campaign in aid to the homeless victims of fires in Russia, the Fund for Assistance to the ROCOR has collected over 20 thousand dollars. The money is coming from both individual donators and organizations and parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, the…
17.08.2010 15:22

Archbishop Kyril of San Francisco and Western America calls the faithful to make donations for victims of wildfires in Russia

The official website of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia has published an appeal by Archbishop Kyril of San Francisco and Western America concerning the disasters in the Russian Federation. He calls upon all the faithful of the diocese of Western America to begin collecting donations for victims of wildfires.
17.08.2010 13:55

Smolensk Theological School is the first secondary religious education institution to obtain official accreditation

The inter-diocesan theological school in the diocese of Smolensk was granted official accreditation on June 30, 2010. Now its graduates will receive a church certificate and a state-recognized certificate as specialists in Choir Conducting and Painting.
16.08.2010 17:03

Divine Liturgy celebrated in Sumela Monastery for the first time in decades

A group of several thousand believers from Russia and other countries of the near abroad came to the old Monastery of the Panagia Sumela near Trabzon, Turkey, on August 15, 2010, to attend the liturgy celebrated by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in this unique cultural monument and great Christian shrine…