The Far Abroad
26.04.2013 10:33
Metropolitan Hilarion met with Rainer Cardinal Woelki, Archbishop of Berlin
On 25 April 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, who is visiting Germany with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, met with Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki, Archbishop of Berlin.
25.04.2013 11:36
DECR chairman visits Leipzig
On 24 April 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, who is on a working visit to Germany upon the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, arrived in Leipzig.
24.04.2013 21:12
Reports on release of Christian hierarchs abducted in Syria prove to be false
Agence France-Presse and Reuters, and then other foreign news agencies and broadcasting companies reported that the kidnapped Christian hierarchs had been released and were on their way to or had just returned to Aleppo. Those reports were cited by the mass media in various countries, including Russia. However, authoritative sources…
24.04.2013 15:04
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with State Secretary of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On 24 April 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, currently on a working visit to Germany with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, met with Ms Emily Huber, State Secretary of the German Federal Foreign…
24.04.2013 0:55
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrives in Germany
On 23 April 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Berlin. The DECR chairman visits Germany with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
23.04.2013 13:00
Statement by DECR Communication Service on kidnapping of Christian leaders of Aleppo
On 22 April 2013, leaders of Christian communities of Aleppo, Metropolitan Boulos of Aleppo (Orthodox Church of Antioch) and Metropolitan Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim (Syriac Orthodox Church), were abducted in northeast Syria.
23.04.2013 12:45
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: We pray for the soonest return of hierarchs abducted in Syria
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, made comments to the mass media concerning the abduction of hierarchs of the Patriarchate of Antioch and of the Syrian Orthodox Church
22.04.2013 15:03
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with German Ambassador to Russia
On 22 April 2013, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with H. E. Ulrich Brandenburg, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation.
20.04.2013 22:33
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expresses condolence over earthquake in China’s Sichuan province
On 20 April 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent a message of condolences to Mr. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, over the earthquake in China’s Sichuan province, which had claimed the lives of many people. The text of the message is…
19.04.2013 13:30
Primate of Russian Orthodox Church expresses his condolence to the President of United States over tragedies in Boston and Texas
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expressed his condolences to U.S. President Barack Obama over the tragedies in Boston and Texas. The text of the message is given below.