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14.10.2025
Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission takes part in Sunday Liturgy in Nazareth
13.10.2025

From September 22 to 27, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ and His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Mar Awa III, the sixth meeting of the Commission for Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Assyrian Church of the East took place in Erbil (Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq). This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Commission’s work.
27.09.2025
Patriarchal exarch for South East Asia meets with representatives of the Indonesian ministry for religious affairs
25.09.2025
A report by Metropolitan Luka of Zaporozhye and Melitopol at the conference "The Influence of the Patriarchate of Constantinople on the Fate of Orthodoxy in Ukraine," organized by the Center for Russian Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade.
23.10.2024
Protopresbyter Ioannis K. Diotis. Theologian, social commentator, writer and publisher. Recipient of awards from the Academy of Sciences of Athens for his activities.
25.12.2023 • Reviews
Article by Vakhtang V. Kipshidze, vice-chairman of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media
16.11.2023 • Reviews
18.10.2023 • Reviews
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'
The Church’s communication with the world external to her is a special but integral part of Orthodox mission. This ministry is not always the direct proclamation of the Word of God. However, it helps millions of people to see Orthodoxy from various viewpoints and also to come to feel the beauty and power of Orthodoxy.
