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…
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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…
Thursday, 20 February 2014 After a night of violent confrontations between protesters and police and the deaths of more than two dozen people, Pope Francis and Ukrainian church leaders spoke out on…
Hospital inside the St. Mikhailivskiy Cathedral |PR News An historic church in Kiev was used as a temporary hospital to treat people injured in Ukraine’s violent clashes, activists said Wednesday. The landmark St.…
Rome, February 16, 2014 (Zenit.org) Father John Flynn, LC | 1496 hits With the Winter Olympics, Russia has attracted attention on a variety of issues, among them religion. On Feb. 10 Pew…
Prompted by the Moscow Patriarchate, Russia’s Culture Ministry wants to develop a tourist cluster near the New Jerusalem Monastery in Istra. For Patriarch Kirill, the new hub will, among other things, draw…
Priests , rabbis , kosher food and churches and chapels at the Winter Games , which open February 7 on the Black Sea. Patriarch Kirill consecrates Orthodox church near the Olympic Village…
Rome, January 31, 2014 (Zenit.org) This will be a crucial year for ecumenism, particularly concerning Catholic-Orthodox relations, the head of the Vatican’s Christian Unity council has said. In an interview with charity…
As reported by Interfax, the head of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church on Church-Society, Vsevolod Chaplin, called the Maydanivskyy movement in Ukraine the “new horde.” Chaplin also believes that the…