Inter-Christian relations

• Metropolitan Hilarion attends a meeting of the Joint Theological Commission for Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue’s drafting committee
  17.06.2011 22:29 ·
  

  The committee discussed theological and ecclesiological aspects of primacy and conciliarity in the Church.

  
  
• Delegation from Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wurttemberg visits the Department for External Church Relations
  17.06.2011 17:26 ·
  

  Later that day the delegation of the Evangelical Church in Wurttemberg visited the Monastery of St. Daniel and St. Sergius’s Monastery of the Trinity as well as the Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary.

  
  
• Patriarch Kirill meets with new Apostolic Nuncio in Russia
  17.06.2011 16:08 ·
  

  Welcoming Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Patriarch Kirill said he kept good memories of and gave a high value to the archbishop’s contribution to the settlement of inter-confessional relations in the 1990s in Moscow and later in Ukraine. He also wished his guest successful tenure in Moscow as apostolic nuncio.

  
  
• DECR chairman will visit Greece
  11.06.2011 14:59 ·
  

  The program of his visit includes a meeting with His Beatitude Archbishop Jeronymos of Athens and All Greece and participation in the meeting of the Joint Orthodox-Catholic Commission for Theological Dialogue’s working group for drafting a document on the Role of the Bishop of Rome in Church Communion in the First Millennium to be held at Rethymno, Crete.

  
  
• DECR chairman addresses Kirchentag participants
  04.06.2011 13:44 ·
  

  In his presentation, Metropolitan Hilarion said that peacemaking began in human soul and in the family.

  
  
• International conference on 90th anniversary of Peace of Riga and a meeting of Russian-Polish group for complex issues
  03.06.2011 12:07 ·
  

  An international conference on Russia, Poland and Europe: From War to Peace, planned to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the Peace of Riga concluded between Russia and Poland 1921 with Latvia’s mediation, was held on June 2, 2011, in the capital of Latvia.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk speaks at interreligious conference in Hungary
  02.06.2011 21:36 ·
  

  DECR Chairman Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrived in Hungary on June 1, 2011, to participate, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, in an international conference on cooperation between Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

  
  
• DECR Chairman meets with a group of high-ranking representatives of the Catholic Church in Poland
  02.06.2011 03:41 ·
  

  The sides discussed the preparation of a joint statement of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church in Poland on reconciliation of the nations in their pastoral care. The decision to work at such a document was made in February 2010.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion speaks at the opening of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in Kingston
  19.05.2011 21:57 ·
  

  Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, spoke at the opening of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation on May 18, 2011, in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica.

  
  
• DECR chairman begins his visit to Jamaica
  18.05.2011 22:12 ·
  

  The IEPC will last from 17th through 25th May 2011. Some 1,000 participants from more than 120 countries will celebrate achievements of the Decade to Overcome Violence declared by the World Council of Churches in 2001.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion: all healthy forces in society should rally to prevent extinction of our population
  13.05.2011 20:03 ·
  

  Problems discussed by the Christian Inter-confessional Council in the CIS and the Baltic were a subject of the press conference given on May 13, 2011, by the CICC’s cochairmen – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion meets a representative of the Assyrian Church of the East
  11.05.2011 19:12 ·
  

  On May 11, 2011, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, received Bishop Mar Isaac Joseph of Northern Iraq and Russia, Assyrian Church of the East, at his request.

  
  
• New Apostolic Nuncio to Russia welcomed by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk
  11.05.2011 18:53 ·
  

  Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, new Apostolic Nuncio to Russia, was received by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk on May 11, 2011, at the Department for External Church Relations.

  
  
• Patriarch Kirill expresses condolences to Patriarch Shenouda III of the Coptic Church over pogroms in Giza
  09.05.2011 20:10 ·
  

  In his message to His Holiness Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Throne of St. Mark in All Africa and the Middle East, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expressed condolences over the pogroms committed in Giza, Egypt, in which Coptic churches were damaged and 12 people were killed. Below is the text of the message.

  
  
• DECR chairman makes statement on attacks against Coptic churches in Giza
  09.05.2011 20:10 ·
  

  On May 7-8 in Giza, two Coptic churches were set on fire by radical Muslims. Twelve people were killed and about 200 were injured.

  
  
• “The Gift of Old Age” International Conference takes place in Rome
  05.05.2011 11:39 ·
  

  “The Gift of Old Age” international conference sponsored by the Community of St. Egidio began its work in Rome on 4 May 2011.

  
  
• Senior Russian and English bishops launch Patriarch Kirill of Moscow’s first book in English
  07.04.2011 20:48 ·
  

  On 11 April 2011, the English edition of the book “Freedom and Responsibility. A Search for Harmony – Human Rights and Personal Dignity” written by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will be presented at the London Book Fair.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion is awarded the title of professor of the University of Fribourg
  27.03.2011 13:01 ·
  

  On 25 March 2011, the commemoration day of St. Simeon the New Theologian, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) and rector of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Church Postgraduate and Doctoral School, was awarded the title of titular professor of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

  
  
• Cooperation agreement between the University of Fribourg and Church Postgraduate and Doctoral School is signed
  27.03.2011 12:34 ·
  

  On 25 March 2011, cooperation agreement between the University of Fribourg and the Ss Cyril and Methodius Church Postgraduate and Doctoral School was signed in Fribourg, Switzerland.

  
  
• Metropolitan Hilarion on persecution of Christians today – interview to Izvestiya daily
  24.03.2011 15:45 ·
  

  Out of every 100 victims of religious intolerance in the world, 75 are Christians.