Moskau (KNA) Russlands evangelisch-lutherische Kirche verlangt nach der Rückgabe der Kathedrale in Moskau vom Staat weiteres, vor rund 80 Jahren enteignetes Eigentum zurück. "Wir erwarten, dass die Rückgabe der Kathedrale in Anwesenheit des deutschen Bundespräsidenten hilft, den Weg für die Rückgabe anderer lutherischer Kirchengebäude zu ebnen", sagte Erzbischof Dietrich Brauer der Katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur (KNA) in Moskau. Er wolle etwa auch das ehemalige Pfarrhaus und das Schulgebäude…

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes that moral sense shared by all nations should be laid in basis of legislation in every country of the modern world. "No matter how different our countries, nations and establishments are, we all have moral sense, each of us has the voice of conscience, in other words, our differences are above basis, while moral sense is our true basis, it is truly universal characteristic of a human nature given to us from the birth. It is not constructed by s…

Head of the Catholic Archdiocese in Moscow Metropolitan Paolo Pezzi confessed he feels himself Russian and said that relations between the Russian Catholics and the Russian Orthodox Church "are getting better and better." "It is not for showing off, it is natural closing up in the joint witness to love in Christ. I think it is the most natural and right way. We are friends with representatives of other confessions and religious teachings. This dialogue is absolutely necessary to build a society…

Quelle: www.rferl.org, 12. Oktober 2017: A United Nations expert has called on the Uzbek government to enact reforms that would allow citizens to practice their faiths freely, saying that strengthening diversity and freedom of religion can help combat religious extremism. The UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, made the comments in a statement issued on October 12, after concluding a 11-day official visit to Uzbekistan. "Religions or beliefs should not be seen…

The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations delegated its representatives to the sessions of the Parliamentary Committee, which considered the draft of the law "On prevention and counteraction of domestic violence”. During the meeting, representatives of the Council of Churches supported the draft of the Bill No. 5294, reports the Institute of Religious Freedom. As a result of the discussion, the Committee on Family, Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism recommended the parliam…

The Secretariat of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations is drafting a memorandum on the interaction with the Conference of European Churches. The representatives of Ukrainian denominations discussed this issue during a meeting on October 18, under the chairmanship of Sheikh Ahmed Tamim, Chairman of the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine, the Institute of Religious Freedom report. Earlier the AUCCRO already appealed to foreign inter-church associations to…

As part of the plenary session of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, held in these days in the Vatican, Patriarch Sviatoslav delivered a presentation on the ecumenical mission of the Eastern Catholic Churches. “The experience of the last two centuries clearly shows that in restoring the unity or communion of the Churches, Christians have fallen into two categories: those who seek unity and those who oppose it,” the Head of the UGCC stressed, summarizing up his appeal to the participant…

Die Russische Orthodoxe Kirche (ROK) sieht im Bericht zur internationalen Religionsfreiheit für das Jahr 2016 des US-Außenministeriums Fortschritte, was die Einschätzung der Religionsfreiheit in Russland betrifft. Andererseits kritisierte sie die Verwendung von einseitigen und ungenauen Quellen, wie aus einem Brief von Metropolit Ilarion (Alfejev), Leiter des Kirchlichen Außenamtes des Moskauer Patriarchats, an den amerikanischen Außenminister Rex Tillerson hervorgeht.

Bei seinem Besuch in Usbekistan hat der russische Patriarch Kirill die guten interreligiösen und zwischenstaatlichen Beziehungen hervorgehoben. Anlass des Besuchs war das 145-Jahr-Jubiläum der russisch-orthodoxen Eparchie Taschkent und die Weihe der dortigen orthodoxen Kathedrale, die in den letzten Jahren renoviert worden war.