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On 15th April 2024, in the State House in Lilongwe, capital of Malawi, a meeting took place between Metropolitan Konstantin of Zaraisk, Patriarchal Exarch of Africa, and Rev. Brian Kamwendo, Presidential Advisor on Religious Affairs.
17.04.2024
Obituary for Mr Leonid Bulygin, an oldest DECR staff member
16.04.2024
08.04.2024
Clergymen of Russian Ecclesiastical Mission celebrate memorial service on the 130th anniversary of the demise of Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin)
07.04.2024
From 11th to 15th March 2024, Hegumen Dionisy (Shlenov), abbot of Saint Andrew’s Stavropegial Monastery in Moscow, professor and head of postgraduate studies at the Moscow Theological Academy, visited Belarus at the invitation of Metropolitan Veniamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus.
19.03.2024
Archbishop Theodosios of Sebastia: The Orthodox Church is subjected to unprecedented persecution and violence in Ukraine
18.03.2024
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
An article by Matthew Namee
28.10.2022
In the course of debates on the order of acceptance into the Church of persons ordained in schismatic communities one can often hear references to various precedents in history. For instance, the defenders of the position of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which had received members of the UOC KP and UAOC into communion without reordination, cite examples of acceptance in the present dignity of persons ordained by schismatics and even by heretics. Yet, in most cases these examples do not seem to be convincing upon closer look.
29.05.2022 • Reviews
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.