The armed groups wear Russian uniforms and wave Russian flags. Tensions mount with Russian military exercises on the border with Ukraine and the protection given to former President Yanukovych. Kerry and Lavrov…
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We have asked the editor of the Catholic Herald that the courtesy of addressing Patriarch Sviatoslav as Patriarch Sviatoslav instead of by the invented Latin Roman Catholic construct, unknown in the Eastern Church,…
The Metropolitan of Pergamon Ioannis Zizioulas [the theologian John Zizioulas] has raised alarm bells about divisions between the Orthodox Churches. Some have reduced Christian unity to an alliance between religious hierarchies formed in…
We are most grateful to a friend of the Society’s for translating this important and closely reasoned answer to the Moscow Statement in favour of the present efforts of the Joint International…
NB – the dialogue said to be opening is one in which the Moscow Patriarchate refers to those whose reconciliation it seeks to attract as “schismatics”. See the earlier post. by Marta…
Patriarch Kirill appeals for the reunion of the Orthodox Churches in Ukraine, insisting on the Moscow Patriarchate’s standing as the only recognised and canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine, referring to the other churches…
By the CS Monitor’s Editorial Board / February 23, 2014 As the people of Ukraine now fix their democracy, they must remember how they forced a corrupt and violent regime to simply…
Also present was Metropolitan Kallisos of Diokleia
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…
The Patriarch of Moscow has today called for peace in Ukraine and prayers for its people. His statement follows, and to some extent counters, the urgent appeal for peace issued earlier in…