The Icon of the Smolenksy Saviour – Spas Smolensky on the Spasskaya Tower Thanks to Zenit – Two icons covered in plaster on towers of the Moscow Kremlin are being restored. It is…
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On 10 September, the Moscow Patriarchate Department of External Relations carried the speech of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk to the Nikaean Club, concerning Orthodox relations with Anglicanism at the invitation of Archbishop…
Papal trip to Moscow and the number of parishes in the capital. Moscow (thanks to AsiaNews) – June 9, 2010 “The Catholic community in Russia is a minority and must…
Cobbler Gives Same Shoes to Pontiff, Patriarch CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, AUG. 25, 2010 (Zenit.org).- It’s a known fact that a good pair of shoes can help lessen the aches and pains of…
On 20 August 2010, Zenit carried an interview with Roman Catholic Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk on the challenge of secularism to Christians following the end of communism and the rise of…
Billboards announcing Patriarch Kirill’s visit in Kyiv Patriarch Kirill of Moscow says that he and Benedict XVI often see eye-to-eye on many issues, especially with regard to those of a moral nature,…
On 19 May 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, currently in Italy with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and…
Prime Ministers Putin and Puck in April 2010 at the Katyn Memorial The Russian Orthodox patriarch has visited the graves of the 22,000 Poles near Smolensk, who were massacred under the rule…
Fr John Salter, Chairman, writes in Chrysostom for Pascha 2010: Following the death of Patriarch Alexis II the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Church has elected Metropolitan Kyril of…
VATICAN CITY, JUNE 3, 2010 thanks to Zenit.org The forthcoming preparation of a Pan-Orthodox Council is a reason for joy, says a subsecretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Msgr.…