05/15/2014 10:24, by Nina Achmatova Moscow (AsiaNews ) – The refusal of entry to the Moscow Patriarchate’s “foreign minister”, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, has raised yet another diplomatic row between Kiev and…
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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, was denied entry to Ukraine and had to return home, being told he is persona non grata. The…
Our Vice Chairman’s response to a recent interview given by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev), Head of the Department for External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, to the National Catholic Register’s Edward Pentin, has…
Scroll down for the NCR interview. It always bears repeating that Metropolitan Hilarion is not speaking objectively, or in a spirit of dialogue. His job consists in: skillfully advancing the interests of the Patriarchal…
27 March 2014 On March 22, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who hosts the Church and World talk-show on Russia-24 TV channel, had as his guest the editor-in-chief of the Religion and…
The positioning of the Moscow Patriarchate speaks for itself, except to say that it is calculated to provoke the Ukrainian Catholic Church, in directing its “grievance” to Rome, by treating it as a mere…
On February 21, 2014, in London, at the headquarters of the Representation of the Russian Federal Agency for the Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States, an international symposium on “Traditional values…
There are many reasons to be hopeful about the direction of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue but it is threatened by tensions emerging within the Orthodox Church. As the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity…
ROME, January 8, 2014 – Exactly half a century since the embrace in Jerusalem between Paul VI and the patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras, Pope Francis has announced that he too will go…
The conflict between Greek Catholics and Orthodox in Western Ukraine has to be resolved from both sides, said Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. “Only by…