On September 2–3, 2025, representatives of the monastic community of the Coptic Church, currently on a pilgrimage to Russia with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Rus', visited churches and monasteries of the Nizhny Novgorod Metropolis.

07.09.2025

Bishop Leonid of Argentina and South America participates in Liturgy at the Church of St. George of the Antiochian Patriarchate in Buenos Aires

02.09.2025

Visit of Deans of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa to Russia concludes

01.09.2025

A monastic delegation of the Coptic Church arrives in Russia

31.08.2025

With the support of the DECR, a victim of terrorist attack in a Syrian church receives medical care in Moscow

29.08.2025

Russian Ambassador to Israel visits Russian Ecclesiastical Mission

28.08.2025

Press conference on Russian Orthodox Church’s mission in Africa takes place at TASS News Agency

27.08.2025

Bishop Leonid of Argentina and South America visits Panama

25.08.2025

Leadership of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission holds a working meeting at the Russian diplomatic mission in Palestine

25.08.2025

Pilgrim Children's Camp is held in Turkey with support from the Russian Orthodox Church

25.08.2025

Insights

Ukraine as a testing ground for a new Unia: threats and ways to overcome them

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

The struggle of the Moscow Patriarchate for Russian monastic presence on Mount Athos in the 1960s – early 1970s

03.10.2024

The Extreme Inconsistency of the Behaviour of Patriarch Bartholomew

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

Pyrrhic victory of the Ukrainian authorities: the fight against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Article by Vakhtang V. Kipshidze, vice-chairman of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media

16.11.2023 • Reviews

Establishing Autocephaly: The Canonical Aspect

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.

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#Unity of the Russian Church

UOC church in Brody, Lviv region, was seized

09.10.2025

Schismatics seize a church building of the canonical Church in the village of Kerstentsy, Chernivtsi Region

01.10.2025

Vladimir Legoyda: Decision to revoke Metropolitan Onuphry’s citizenship is a political act aimed at putting pressure on entire millions-strong flock of the Ukrainian Church

03.07.2025

#Foreign parishes

Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the burial site of St. John the Theologian in Turkey on his commemoration day

09.10.2025

Patriarchal exarch celebrates services for the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the Indonesian city of Bekasi.

22.09.2025

Will the Orthodox have their own "Pope"?

How one Ukrainian bishop had gone into a schism

Liturgy at sub-zero temperatures: the body is cold, but the heart is hot

Metropolitan Hilarion: The Lord entrusted us with the Church that has existed for a thousand years

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Interchristian contacts

Interfaith dialog

Unity of the Russian Church

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with representatives of Macedonian Orthodox Church in Holy Trinity and St. Sergius Lavra

Metropolitan Anthony meets with Russia’s Consul General in Erbil

Metropolitan Anthony takes part in the Assyrian Church of the East Conference dedicated to the First Ecumenical Council

News

UOC church in Brody, Lviv region, was seized

XII International interreligious youth forum takes place in Dagestan

Patriarchal exarch celebrates services for the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the Indonesian city of Bekasi.

Bishop Leonid of Argentina and South America participates in Liturgy at the Church of St. George of the Antiochian Patriarchate in Buenos Aires

Press conference on Russian Orthodox Church’s mission in Africa takes place at TASS News Agency

Insights

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'

UOC church in Brody, Lviv region, was seized

Schismatics seize a church building of the canonical Church in the village of Kerstentsy, Chernivtsi Region

Vladimir Legoyda: Decision to revoke Metropolitan Onuphry’s citizenship is a political act aimed at putting pressure on entire millions-strong flock of the Ukrainian Church

Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the burial site of St. John the Theologian in Turkey on his commemoration day

Patriarchal exarch celebrates services for the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the Indonesian city of Bekasi.

Visit of Deans of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa to Russia concludes

Orthodox hierarchs in Latin America make a statement on the terrorist attack at Mar Elias church in Damascus

Victims of the terrorist attack on the Orthodox church in Damascus are commemorated in Vienna

St. Elijah’s сhurch of Ukrainian Orthodox Church seized with police assistance in Bukovina Village of Zabolotye

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