Jun 8, 2014 “Let’s see if we can fill up the Blue Mosque first, before Hagia Sophia,” stated the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, giving a diplomatic answer to those who…
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June 2014 Your All-Holiness, Your Beatitudes, Reverend Fathers, Your Graces, Fathers and Brothers, The content of this letter was written with much concern and anxiety over the future of the Orthodox faithful…
7 June 2014 – Naharnet Two Orthodox bishops kidnapped in Syria in April 2013 are currently in the northern city of Raqqa and held captive by the Islamic State of Iraq and…
Metropolitan Hilarion (Shukalo) of Donetsk, of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, has distanced himself from the parties in conflict in the East and warns: “There can be no blessings for those who…
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Message of the IV Catholic-Orthodox European Forum Minsk, Belarus, 2 to 6 June 2014 The IV Catholic-Orthodox Forum on Religion and Cultural Diversity: Challenges for the Christian Churches in Europe was held in…
06/04/2014 by Marta Allevato AsiaNews sources say the message was brought to Kirill personally by the director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, who performed in the Russian capital while the Pope met…
Our attention has recently been recalled to the following interview granted by Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department of External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, to Kommersant newspaper in December 2013: Metropolitan…
The Russian Orthodox Church cannot afford to alienate Ukrainians as it bids for primacy within the Orthodox world By Fr Mark Drew on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Patriarch Kirill doesn’t want large…
Moscow, June 2, Interfax – The self-defence forces in southeastern Ukraine do not have broad support and are “separatists,” Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko), secretary of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of…