Analitics
- Metropolitan Hilarion: commandment to honour fathers and mothers should be in the plenitude of power in different cultures and centuries
08.06.2010 13:12 ·On 5 June 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, spoke about the upbringing of children on “The Church and the World” TV programme at the request of the viewers.
- THE WORLD AS SACRAMENT The Theological and Spiritual Vision of Creation: His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
26.05.2010 11:17 ·In the Philokalia, St. Anthony of Egypt describes nature as a book that reveals the beauty of God’s creation: “Creation [he says] declares in a loud voice its Maker and master.” Or, as St. Maximus the Confessor claims in the 7th century, the whole world is a “cosmic liturgy.” What, then, is the Orthodox theological and spiritual vision of the world?
- Italian version of Patriarch Kirill’s Freedom and Responsibility presented at Catholic University of Milan
18.05.2010 21:43 ·Patriarch Kirill’s book has been translated and published through the efforts of the Vatican’s publishers and the international society ‘Sophia: Russian Idea – the Idea of Europe’.
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church Holy Synod’s message on 65th anniversary of Victory in Great Patriotic War
08.05.2010 19:11 ·In anticipation of celebrations to mark the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has issued the following message
- ‘We have reached consensus on the autocephaly procedure’ – DECR chairman’s interview with the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate
04.05.2010 16:13 ·As the Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission for the agenda of a Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church continues its work, the issue of granting autocephaly and the diptych order has come up to its attention in the period of 2009-2010. The leader of the Russian Orthodox delegation at the Preparatory Commission meetings, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, expounds the work of the Commission in an interview to the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, S. V. Chapnin.
- Code on Holy Sites presented in Istanbul
28.04.2010 14:53 ·On 28 April 2010, Code on Holy Sites was presented at the session of the European Council of Religious Leaders. The document, compiled on the initiative of representatives of religious communities and expert circles from different countries, was adopted at the Conference in Trondheim in 2009. It was prepared with the aim of regulating the situation with holy sites of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
- ‘In face of aggressive secularism, religious communities in Europe should act in unity’ – DECR vice-chairman
28.04.2010 12:05 ·The European Council of Religious Leaders, taking place on April 26-28 in Istanbul, discussed on its second day the themes ‘Solidarity. Poverty in Africa and Migration in Europe – a Global Challenge for Religions’ and ‘Equality – More Equal Than Others? Minarets, Minorities and European Identity’.
- Baku Declaration on the results of the trilateral meeting between His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshuqur Pasha-zade
26.04.2010 23:37 ·A joint declaration was adopted on the results of the trilateral meeting between His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshuqur Pasha-zade that took place in Baku on 26 April 2010.
- Metropolitan Hilarion meets Orthodox youth from the Caucasus with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
20.04.2010 23:19 ·On 20 April 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with the Orthodox youth from the Caucasus at the “Danilovsky” hotel complex in Moscow with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
- Address by Patriarch Kirill during Divine Liturgy at Patriarchal Cathedral of Annunciation in Alexandria
11.04.2010 22:34 ·I pray that God’s grace may fill the hearts of the faithful of this old but always young Church of Alexandria. May Holy Orthodoxy prosper and spread in the African continent!
- The Passions in Orthodox perception are deeply imbued with the theme of the Resurrection and radiant Paschal joy
03.04.2010 20:37 ·Metropolitan Hilarion’s interview to the Romfea.gr church news portal
- Metropolitan Hilarion meets with public at Lvov Philharmonic Society
23.03.2010 20:17 ·Passions According to St. Matthews composed by Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, was performed at the Lvov Philharmonic Society during the metropolitan’s second day in Lvov, on 22 March 2010.
- Joint Declaration by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians
18.03.2010 14:38 ·We thank our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who has given us the opportunity to meet at the First Capital City of Holy Echmiadzin in the Lenten period from March 16 to 18, 2010, when the whole Christendom is preparing for the holy feast of Easter.
- Patriarch Kirill’s speech at Echmiadzin cathedral
16.03.2010 21:18 ·With great joy and warm feelings I have set foot today on the blessed and much-suffered Armenian soil sanctified by the toil of St. Gregory the Enlightener of Great Armenia and stained with the blood of martyrs for the faith of Christ cultivated by many generations of the fraternal Armenian people.
- “Scholarly-Theological View on Modern Information Society” expert seminar took place at the Laura of the Holy Trinity
11.03.2010 14:24 ·“Theology and information society require mutual comprehension and dialogue as far as they are interested in human person,” said the Revd. Georgy Zavershinsky, head of the DECR Communication Service, at the “Scholarly-theological view on modern information society” expert seminar that took place at the Laura of the Holy Trinity. The seminar was chaired by Vladimir Legoida, chairman of the Synodal Information Department.
- Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Culture is at risk of becoming anti-culture without the Church
09.03.2010 16:43 ·If it does not cooperate with the Church, culture today is at risk of turning into a destructive anti-culture carrying a negative moral message, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relation, said in an interview to the RIA Novosti news agency.
- Metropolitan Hilarion speaks at the “Teaching of religion in state schools: topical discussion in Russia and in Germany” conference (Moscow, 24-25 February 2010)
24.02.2010 12:51 ·The participation of clergymen, representatives of state structures, scholars, and teachers in discussion of the problems of teaching of religion in secondary schools and of religious and ethical subjects in general is a fact of great value.
- Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: ‘Holiness is a calling of every Christian’
10.02.2010 17:56 ·Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, spoke on holiness and ways leading to it in his talk in the Church and the World TV broadcast on February 6, 2010.
- Metropolitan Hilarion: Christianity is a religion of the people of spirit
06.02.2010 23:50 ·Address to a forum of Orthodox youth on 16 January 2010 in Penza, Russia.
- “Christian Family – a ‘little church’ and a basis of healthy society.” Final document of the plenary session of the Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic countries, Moscow, 4 February 2010
04.02.2010 14:39 ·Christian Churches of the CIS and Baltic countries, in a plenary session of the Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic countries held in Moscow on 4 February
