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16.08.2010 16:16
DECR vice-chairman on working visit to Estonia
The DECR vice-chairman had a meeting in the Estonian Parliament with parliament members Ain Seppik, Toomas Varek and Vladimir Velman who is also member of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy.
16.08.2010 13:09
Heads of Russian Orthodox Church Synodal departments hold their first meeting
On August 16, 2010, the heads of the Russian Orthodox Church Synodal departments assembled for their first meeting at the patriarchal working residence in Chisty Pereulok, Moscow. The meeting was chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill.
15.08.2010 23:27
Metropolitan Hilarion: The Lord calls us to active good works
On August 15, 2010, the day of the translation of the first martyr St. Stephan’s relics from Constantinople to Jerusalem, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted…
14.08.2010 22:20
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: The Lord is always with us, especially at a time of trial
On August 14, 2010, the eve of the commemoration day of the fist martyr Stephan, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, officiated at All-Night Vigil at the church of Our Lady the Joy to All the Afflicted in Bolshaya Ordynka in Moscow.
13.08.2010 15:54
Archimandrite Panteleimon Shatov: ‘It is very gratifying that we have so many good and selfless people’
Archimandrite Panteleimon Shatov, head of the Department for Church Charity and Social Service, tells the editor-in-chief of Neskuchny sad magazine about the progress in collecting aid to victims of wildfires.
13.08.2010 13:11
Russian foreign ministry official comments on handing over responsibility for Orthodox shrines to Kosovo police
A. Nesterenko, an official of the Russian foreign ministry, has commented on the decision to hand over responsibility for protecting objects of the Serbian cultural and religious heritage to the Kosovo police, the foreign ministry information department has reported.
13.08.2010 12:00
Russian Orthodox Church has raised over 18 million roubles in aid to wildfire victims
By the morning of August 9, 2010, the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service has sent 99 cars with humanitarian aid, about 120 tons, to the most affected regions of Ryazan, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir and Moscow. During the day, it managed to send 11 more cars:…
12.08.2010 13:48
Humanitarian aid from Russian Orthodox Church and Moscow police sent to Ryazan Region
Before the convoy’s departure, Archimandrite Panteleimon Shatov, head of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service, thanked the Moscow riot police for help in delivering the aid and noted that many policemen took part in collecting the aid.
12.08.2010 13:46
St. Gregory the Theologian Foundation will transfer 300 thousand roubles for aid to victims of wildfires
The money will be transferred to the account of the Russian Orthodox Church’s department for church charity and social service.
11.08.2010 12:34