Andrew Sorokowski, 26 June 2014, RISU In Metropolitan Hilarion’s view, the crisis in Ukraine, which in fact consists of a Russian invasion, is being exacerbated by the Greek-Catholic Church. Evidently, standing by…
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19 July 2014, RISU On July 18, at the church-state celebrations in Sergiev Posad (near Moscow) dedicated to the 700 anniversary of St Sergius of Radonezh, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that…
This excellent post from Seraphim from a “Byzantine Chesterton” viewpoint, is well worth taking to heart: Prolegomena to Ecumenism Saturday, June 28, 2014 The recent and continuing expressions of outrage by the…
On 26th June, Interfax, the Russian state news service with a particular focus on the works and policy of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, carried yet another diatribe from…
On 6 June 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of the Syrian…
June 16, 2014, Brett R. McCaw A conversation with His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar about the Maidan movement and relationships between Catholics and Orthodox – and the Roman Catholic Vatican’s attitude to…
16 July 2014, Russia Today RT The Velikoretsky Procession of the Cross; the oldest, longest and by far the biggest of many in Russia. 40,000 pilgrims from all over country walk 160…
Sacred Mysteries: Russians who sought reunion with Rome felt the pinch, by Christopher Howse, 14 Jun 2014 Vladimir Putin hardly seems a pattern of holiness, but he has aligned himself with the…
The Melkite and other Catholic Patriarchs and the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch in attendance The following official translation has been provided by the Patriarchate of Antioch: The Third Ordinary Session of the Holy…
Moscow, July 8, 2014 The martyrs for the faith in the 20th century included in the database of Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities (Moscow) number currently about 35,000 people, reported rector…