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On February 24, 2021, the round table of the Churches in Europe working group of the Russia-Germany public forum ‘St. Petersburg Dialogue’ held a virtual meeting to discuss the theme ‘The Pandemic and Its Influence on Churches in Russia and Germany: Challenges and Consequences’.
24.02.2021
Metropolitan Hilarion: Christians in the Middle East need our compassion and prayer
22.02.2021
Recently the European parliament called upon Ukraine to ban the Peacemaker (Mirotvorets) website, which has become a means of scaring and intimidating politicians, journalists, public and church figures and in general all those whose position differs from that of Ukrainian radicals. Can we expect the European Union to give a just evaluation also on the seizure of church buildings belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the host of the Church and the World TV programme Yekaterina Gracheva asked the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk Hilarion.
22.02.2021
Aid to school for disabled children conveyed by the Russian Church representative in Damascus
17.02.2021
On 12th February 2021, the Joint Working Group for Cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Holy See held an online session
12.02.2021
Primacy of Constantinople is the primacy of service, not of power
10.02.2021
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, expressed his condolences to His Beatitude Tikhon, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, on the death of Protopresbyter Daniel Hubiak, one of the oldest clerics of the Orthodox Church in America.
06.02.2021
Under the pressure of schismatics, the authorities have given them approval to capture a church in Volyn
05.02.2021
On 1 st February 2021, the Stavropegic Parish of All Saints in Strasbourg, France, welcomed a delegation of the city administration led by Mr. Jean Werlen, municipal councillor in charge of the city administration’s relations with religious organisations.
03.02.2021
Metropolitan Hilarion: Most Christians who lived in Iraq have had to leave that land
31.01.2021
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
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.
Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate DECR – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk
The Department for External Church Relations (DECR) carries out an important service standing on the front lines of our Church, defending these boundaries and entering into dialogue with all well-wishers and not only well-wishers. Dialogue is necessary, in the first place, for the defense of our Church so that she may continue carrying out her salvific ministry.
