Inter-Christian relations

• Metropolitan Hilarion’s Passions According to St. Matthews will be performed in Constantinople
  09.03.2010 07:00 ·
  

  A recital of Russian spiritual music will take place on March 26, 2010, at the old museum church of Agia Eirini in Istanbul, Turkey, to perform Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk’s Passions According to St. Matthews, and oratorio for soloists, a choir and an orchestra.

  
  
• Holy Synod’s decisions on church external work
  06.03.2010 20:17 · , Holy Synod
  

  At its meeting on 5 March 2010 in St. Petersburg, chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church made a number of decisions on the Church’s external work.

  
  
• Inter-Council Presence’s commission for relations with non-Orthodoxy and other religions holds its first meeting
  04.03.2010 22:56 ·
  

  The Inter-Council Presence’s commission on relations with non-Orthodoxy and other religions held its first meeting on 4 March 2010 at the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. It was led by the DECR chairman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk’s interview to Interfax-Religion portal
  04.03.2010 18:59 ·
  

  Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk’s interview to Interfax-Religion portal

  
  
• Russian President venerates the Saviour’s Crown of Thorns
  03.03.2010 10:43 ·
  

  On March 2, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Ms. Medvedev venerated the Saviour’s Crown of Thorns, the piece of the Lord’s Cross and the Nail from the Lord’s Cross kept in the Notre Dame Cathedral.

  
  
• Seminar on the spiritual Heritage of Holy Rus’ held in Paris
  03.03.2010 10:11 ·
  

  A symposium on the Spiritual Heritage of Holy Rus’ was held on 1 March 2010 at the College of the Bernardines in Paris. It was attended by 250 people. It was organized by the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, Parish Orthodox Seminary and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paris.

  
  
• Delegation of the Department for External Church Relations on a visit to Warsaw
  01.03.2010 12:09 ·
  

  A delegation of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations was on a visit to Warsaw on February 25-26, 2010. It included Hegumen Philip Riabykh, DECR vice-chairman, and Rev. Seriy Zvonarev, DECR acting secretary for the far-abroad countries.

  
  
• Communiqué of the meeting of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church in Poland
  01.03.2010 12:08 ·
  

  On 26 February 2010, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church in Poland met at the Secretariat of the Polish Episcopal Conference in Warsaw.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion meets with French Catholic Archbishop
  05.02.2010 10:18 · , Roman Catholic Church
  

  On 4 February 2010, at the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk received Monsignor Maurice Gardes, archbishop of Auch, France, president of the National Council for Christian Unity and Relations with Judaism, currently in Russia on a private visit.

  
  
• Session of the Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic countries on “Christian family – a ‘little church’ and a basis of health society’ takes place in Moscow
  04.02.2010 21:03 · , Inter-Christian organizations
  

  A plenary session of the Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic countries (CICC) on “Christian family – a ‘little church’ and a basis of health society’ took place in Moscow on 4 February 2010.