Patriarch Kirill hat im Moskauer Gefängnis Matrosskaja Tischina den Grundstein für eine Kirche geweiht. An der Zeremonie für den Neubau, der im Rahmen des Programms „200 Kirchen“ umgesetzt wird, nahmen Mitte November zahlreiche Geistliche und Politiker teil. Die Kirche wird der Ikone der Gottesmutter „Freude aller Trauernden“ gewidmet, finanziert wird sie durch Spenden.

On 6 December 2018, at the Patriarchal and Synodal Residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow the Presidium of the Interreligious Council of Russia (ICR) held a grand meeting marking the 20th anniversary of the foundation of this organization. The session was chaired by the ICR Chairman Emeritus, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.Taking part in the meeting were members of the ICR Presidium: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Depar…

The nominees for the 2019 Grammy Awards were announced on 7 December and notably, a Russian-American Orthodox choir is among the nominees. In particular, the Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute’s (PaTRAM) latest album, “Teach Me Thy Statutes,” featuring works of Pavel Chesnokov, under the direction of Maestro Vladimir Gorbik, has been nominated in the Best Choral Performance category. The PaTRAM website notes that MusicWeb International also recently designated “Teach Me Thy Stat…

A new subsection has been opened on the official site of the Russian Orthodox Church dedicated to the “Historical unity of the Russian Orthodox Church,” providing documents, publications, and news dedicated to the ongoing crisis in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. As the announcement reads, “Throughout its 1,000-year history, the Russian Orthodox Church, despite the changing political circumstances and temporary divisions, include the two-century period of forced separation from the Kiev Metropo…

On November 17, 2018, a conference of the heads and high-ranking representatives of traditional religious communities in Syria and the interreligious delegation from Russia, headed by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), took place at the main hall of the Patriarchate of Antioch at the Cathedral of the Dormition in Damascus. The event was initiated by the Russian Orthodox Church and was timed to the DECR chai…

Knapp 50 Organisationen, die mit der Russischen Orthodoxen Kirche (ROK) verbunden sind, haben in der zweiten Vergaberunde des Jahrs 2018 Gelder aus dem Präsidentenfonds erhalten. Unter ihnen sind religiöse NGOs, Klöster, Gemeinden und Eparchien. Zusammen haben sie in der Ausschreibung für NGOs rund 55,3 Mio. Rubel (730‘000 Euro) für verschiedene kleinere Projekte erhalten.

The Monastery of the Kykkotissa Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in Cyprus is hosting an international conference on Monasticism of Russia and Cyprus: Spiritual and Cultural Ties. The meeting is organized by the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Kykkos Monastery, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and St. Basil the Great Foundation. A delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church, led by Metropolitan Arseny of Svyatogorsk, vicar of…

The 2nd All-Russia Academic Conference on Theology in the Present-Day Academia held its final session at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in cooperation with the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI). The main plenary session heard a paper presented by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk on Theology in Education and Science: Development of the Industry. In his address, Metropolitan Hilarion put an emphasis on the problems of theological scholarship and…

Aus Protest gegen das Vorgehen des Ökumenischen Patriarchats in der ukrainischen Kirchenfrage hat die Russische Orthodoxe Kirche (ROK) die eucharistische Gemeinschaft mit Konstantinopel abgebrochen. Mit „tiefem Schmerz“ habe der Hl. Synod die Entscheidungen Konstantinopels vom 11. Oktober zur Kenntnis genommen, so die Kirchenleitung nach ihrer Sitzung am 15. Oktober 2018 in Minsk. In seiner Stellungnahme betont der Hl. Synod, dass die Entscheidungen des Ökumenischen Patriarchats „gesetzeswidrig…