| On behalf of the Centre for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Refugee Migration Monitoring in the Syrian Arab Republic, Rear-Admiral Vadim Kulit handed over to Patriarch John of Antioch a certificate ensuring that foodstuffs are to be provided to communities of the Orthodox Church of Antioch. A reception in honour of the high guests was given by the Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church in Damascus. Archimandrite Philip (Vasiltsev) presented to His Beatitude Patriarch John prayer beads made of the Russian Baltic amber, and to Metropolitan Anthony – an icon of the Mother of God painted by one of the Metochion’s female parishioners. The DECR chairman thanked Archimandrite Philip for his pastoral and diplomatic work and presented him with a pectoral cross with decorations. After the reception, an agreement was signed between the Children’s Rehabilitation and Prosthetics Centre operating at the Russian Orthodox Church’s Metochion in Damascus and the Russian Orthodox Church. According to the agreement, the Centre may continue to use the Metochion premises and medical equipment on gratuitous basis. That same day later, the delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church accompanied by Bishop Romanos of Seleucia visited the Patriarchal Convent of Our Lady of Saidnaya and venerated its shrines, including the miracle-working Saidnaya Icon of the Mother of God. Its abbess, Mother Febronia, welcomed Metropolitan Anthony and his companions to the convent. She gave them an overview of the history of the abode founded in the 6th century by Emperor Justinian and told them about the hardships that had befallen its nuns a short time ago, during the hostilities in Syria. An exchange of gifts took place. After that, the guests were offered a repast and visited the convent’s museum of antiquities. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 18 апреля 2024 г. (5 апреля ст.ст.) четверг Четверток Великого канона. Мчч. Агафопода диакона, Феодула чтеца и иже с ними (ок. 303). Перенесение мощей свт. Иова, патриарха Московского и всея России (1652). |
| Archive Interreligious Working Group of the Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations holds its 11th session 19 July 2021 year 19:43 On July 19, 2021, the Interreligious Working Group for Aid to the Syrian Population under the Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations held its 11th session in the building of the Presidential Administration. The meeting was attended by Hieromonk Stephan (Igumnov), secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations (DECR) - the leader of the Interreligious Group: A. Vylegzhanin, deputy head of the Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate; A. Tretyakov, adviser, Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate; A. Terentyev, chief adviser of the Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate; S. Ryakhovsky, Lead Bishop of the Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals); Salih-Hazrat Ibragimov, imam-muhtasib of Nizhnekamsk and Nizhnekamsk Region in Tatarstan; Sh. Kadyrgulov, plenipotentiary of the Central Muslim Board in Moscow; Jean-Francois Thiry, representative of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow (Roman Catholic Church) and leader of Pokrovsky Gates cultural center; Rev. A. Peterson, Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Russia; V. Neledva, head of the international relations department of the Muslim Spiritual Assembly in Russia; B. Protasevich, rector of Zaoksky University of the Seventh-day Adventists Church; A. Cherkezov, president of the Union for Promoting Traditional Religious Values “Christian World”, and Hierodeacon Peter (Akhmatkhamov), DECR. The meeting was opened by Hieromonk Stephan, who, speaking on behalf of the Working Group, congratulated A. Vylegzhanin on his appointment as deputy head of the Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate. A. Tretyakov made a report on the progress made in the preparation of the World Conference for Inter-Cultural and Interreligious Dialogue to take place in 2022 in Sankt-Petersburg and on the tasks facing the Interreligious Working Group in this connection. Hieromonk Stephan also presented a plan of work to be carried out by the Working Group in the second half of 2021, which was approved after a discussion by the meeting. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Third meeting of Working Group for Cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland 11 June 2019 year 20:38 On June 10-11, 2019, the Working Group for Cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland held its regular meeting at St. Petersburg Theological Academy. The delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church included Bishop Seraphim of Petergof, rector of St. Petersburg Theological Academy and Seminary – head of the working group; Archpriest Vladimir Khulap, the academy pro-rector for training; Archbishop Dimitry Yurevich, head of the academy Chair of Bible Studies; Hieromonk Stephan (Igumnov), DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations, and Ms. Ye. Speranskaya, DECR adviser and lecturer at Moscow Theological Academy. The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland was represented by Bishop Dr Seppo Häkkinen of Mikkeli; Rev. Kimmo Kääriäinen, director of the external church relation department of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland; Rev. Dr. Juha Meriläinen; Rev. Tomi Karttunen, secretary of the ELCF department for external church relations; and Rev. Timo Rosqvist, secretary of the Diocese of Mikkeli. Addressing the Finnish delegation, Bishop Seraphim spoke about the long tradition of relationships between the Diocese of St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg theological schools with the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland, also through the dialogue, which has lasted for almost 50 years. Although there were some difficulties a few years ago, he said, now we can resume common theological discussions. He referred to the 2016 ELCF Bishops’ Assembly’s confirmation that the Finnish Lutherans uphold the traditional biblical understanding of marriage as a turning point in the resumption of the relationships. In his speech of greeting Bishop Seppo Häkkinen reminded the gathering of the prehistory of the dialogue pointing to the decisive role played in its organization by the late Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and NObgorod and the late Archbishop Martti Simojoki of Turku and Finland. After that reports were made on the present situation in the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland. These reports were followed by a discussion on the possible themes of the reviving theological dialogue. It was agreed to hold the next session in 2020 and combine the theological discussion with events to mark the 50th anniversary of this dialogue. The results of this dialogue will be presented for adoption to the supreme authorities of the two Churches. On June 11, the guests from Finland visited the St. Alexander Nevsky Laura of the Holy Trinity and the St. Nicholas Cemetery to bow at the grave of one of the founders of the dialogue, Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and Novgorod. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk attends interreligious meeting on Religion and Education 6 October 2021 year 11:24 On October 5, 2021, with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, took part in the interreligious meeting on Religion and Education, which took place in the Vatican. The event was attended by heads and representatives of Christian confessions, world religions, members of the academic community, educational workers. The participants were addressed in particular by Pope Francis of Rome, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University Ahmed Mohamed At-Tayeb, Egypt, acting Secretary General of the World Council of Churches Archpriest John Sauka, UNESCO deputy general director for education Prof Stefania Jannini. In his remarks , Metropolitan Hilarion stressed that a full-fledged educational process is impossible wimphoum reliance on religious values. According to the DECR chairman, the principal value of Christianity is the personality of Jesus Christ. It is a treasure that calls upon today’s Christians to hand it down to coming generations. It is the reference to the personality of Christ that inspired through centuries many generations of people of science and art for creating the best works of human mind and spirit. Metropolitan Hilarion also recounted Dostoevsky’s experience of coming in touch with Christ, which made a colossal impact on the writer’s creative work. According to the DECR chairman, turning to the personality of Christ at the present time may have a great importance for improving the quality of education in the whole world and for propagating its understanding as a holistic process including the spiritual and intellectual development of a person. In conclusion of his remarks, Metropolitan Hilarion expressed a hope that this perception of the educational process will remain one of the central topics in interreligious dialogue and continue bringing forth good fruits in the future. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Metropolitan Hilarion meets with a representative of the Syrian Parliament 21 March 2019 year 18:50 Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met with Ms Maria al-Betaar Shehadeh, a member of the Syrian Parliament, National Security Council and Russian-Syrian Friendship Committee, on sidelines of the Second National Inter-disciplinary Congress with international participation devoted to the theme ‘Physical and Rehabilitational Medicine in Paediatrics: Traditions and Innovations’. The archpastor and Ms. Maria al-Bataar discussed the project for aid to children in the Middle East realized, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, by the DECR with the participation of Poznanie and Linia Zhizni Charities and the Research-Practice Children’s Psycho-neurology Center of the Moscow Municipal Healthcare Department. His Eminence informed the Syrian MP about the current state of the project under which work is carried out with various Russian and Syrian partners, including the Church of Antioch, and about the plans for broadening the project. Metropolitan Hilarion suggested that Syrian representatives offer the full range of problems to be solved through common efforts. It is necessary to have a clear idea of what tasks the planned rehabilitation center is to fulfill, His Eminence noted. He said that it should be understood that prosthesis and psychological aid demand different things. On her part, Ms. Maria al-Betaar thanked the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian authorities for aid given to children affected by the war in Syria. She noted that in addition to hostilities, Syria is suffering from sanctions that affect the economy and life of the Syrian people. As a result of the sanctions, the country cannot purchase new medical equipment and even medicines and children nutrition. With new territories liberated with the help of the Russian Army, there appear new people who need help, she said. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Religious communities in Russia dispatch humanitarian aid to children in Syria 21 December 2022 year 12:36 In December 2022, religious communities in Russia dispatched humanitarian aid, a consignment of electronic equipment for the Ar-Rahmah boarding school for orphans in Damascus. This project was implemented in response to a request from the Syrian part of the Interreligious Working Group for Defending the Rights of Believers against Discrimination and Xenophobia under the Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations. Created with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the working group is coordinated by the DECR chairman, Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk. The group is headed by DECR secretary for inter-Christian relations, Hieromonk Stephen (Igumnov). Since 2017, group has implemented several humanitarian projects in Syria in support of the ongoing process of the country’s revival after the war. Among its major projects is the restoration of the school in the Barza district in Damascus in the summer 2019. In the current month, with the considerable participation of the Moslem Board of the Republic of Tatarstan, a fund-raising campaign has been carried out for purchasing and dispatching office equipment to the Ar-Rahmah boarding school. A special help in organizing the campaign was given by Hassan Fayyez Nasrallah and his regional religious public organization ‘Arab Diaspora in Russia’ and the Imam-Mohtasib of Nizhnekamsk and Niznekamsk Region of the Republic of Tatarstan, Salikh Khazrat Ibragimov. The Interreligious Working Group for the Defence of the Right of Believers against Discrimination and Xenophobia of the Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Association was formed in 2017 as an interreligious working group for aid to the Syrian population. It unites representatives of most religious communities in Russia. In July 2021, it was decided to include in its work the monitoring of the situation of religious communities in various regions of the world and giving aid to them. In 2022, it carried out several actions to give humanitarian aid to people in Donbass. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia and Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk visit the Russian Orthodox Church’s Belgrade Representation 11 November 2022 year 12:24 On November 10, 2022, His Holiness Porfirije, Patriarch of Serbia, and Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, who is in the Serbian capital on a working visit with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, visited the Russian church of the Holy Trinity at Tasmajdan - the Metochion of the Russian Orthodox Church, to venerate its shrines and evaluate the progress made in the repair and restoration work carried out in it. The DECR chairman was accompanied by Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, adviser to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; Archpriest Vitaly Tarasjev, rector of the Belgrade Metochion; Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, acting vice-chairman of the DECR; and Rev. Alexander Ershov, secretary to the DECR chairman. The Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, assisted by Metropolitan Anthony, celebrated the solemn rite of blessing the crosses for the cupolas of the Russian church in Belgrade and the over-gate mosaic image of the Holy Trinity and bestowed a benediction on the clergy and faithful of the church. His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije greeted Metropolitan Anthony and all those present and pointed to the importance of the church of the Holy Trinity as a place uniting the Russian and Serbian Orthodox nations. Metropolitan Anthony cordially thanked His Holiness for the care of the Metochion and its parishioners. Then His Eminence presented Archpriest Vitaly Tarasjev with a mitre, the right to ware which had been bestowed on him by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on his 60th birthday in acknowledgment of his long-standing fruitful rector’s work, and with the Oder of St. Seraphim of Sarov, Degree III, in honour of the 30th anniversary of his priestly service. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Archbishop of Warsaw Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz 11 September 2019 year 18:24 On September 11, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) and rector of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI), met at the CMI with Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, Archbishop of Warsaw, who is in Moscow on an unofficial visit. Taking part in the meeting were also Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio to Russia; Rev Matteo Campagnaro, assistant to Cardinal Nycz, Rev. Vladimir Kabak from the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow, who acted as interpreter; and Rev. Alexy Dikarev, DECR secretariat for inter-Christian relations. Metropolitan Hilarion warmly welcomed the high guest, who came to Moscow for the second time. His Eminence noted the great importance of the visit made by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in August 2012 to Poland, during which he and the president of the Polish Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Józef Michalik of Przemyl, signed a Joint Message to the Peoples of Russia and Poland on Reconciliation. During the talk, which was held in a spirit of mutual understanding and benevolence, the sides dealt with issues of church-state relations in Russia and Poland, in particular, the problem of teaching religion in comprehensive schools. Cardinal Nycz pointed out that, despite the secular nature of the secondary education in Poland, priests of both the Roman Catholic Church and the Polish Orthodox Churches have the right to conduct catechetical lessons in schools. Metropolitan Hilarion stated that in Russia, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church have been deprived of such an opportunity for over 100 years now, which has a negative effect on the spiritual and moral formation of the youth. With satisfaction the both sides noted the high level of the bilateral relations between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Roman Catholic Church, a vivid testimony to which was the historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill on February 12, 2016, in Havana, and the bringing of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from Bari to Russia in May-July 2017. In conclusion of the talk, the metropolitan and the cardinal exchanged tokens of the meeting. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| Archive Summer institute for Moscow Patriarchate representatives held in Rome 28 May 2018 year 15:58 From May 19 to 26, 2018, the 3d Summer Institute for representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church was held in Rome as part of the academic and cultural cooperation between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Roman Catholic Church. The project was organized by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity with participation of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR) and the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute for Post-Graduate Studies (CMI). The group of attendees included staff members of the synodal departments of the Moscow Patriarchate and representatives of theological schools and clergy from various dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church. The group was led by Bishop Arseniy of Yuryev, vicar of the diocese of Novgorod. The institute’s program included visits to common Christian holy places, introduction to the work of higher education institutions of the Roman Catholic Church and meetings with leaders of various institutions of the Curia of Rome, among which was a meeting with the Holy See State Secretary Cardinal Pietro Parolin, which lasted an hour and a half. They also met with Russia’s ambassador to the Vatican A. Avdeyev and the former Apostolic Nuncio to Russia, Archbishop Antonio Mennini. Throughout its visit the group was accompanied by the Rev. Hyacinthe Destivelle, a staff member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. On May 20, the guests from the Russian Orthodox Church visited the St. Clement Basilica, in which they celebrated a thanksgiving at the relics of St. Cyril Equal-to-the-Apostles, the Enlightener of the Slavs, as the next year will mark the 150th anniversary of his demise. On May 23, the group attended the Papal General Audience in St. Peter’s Square. After it they were introduced to Pope Francis. In his brief greeting, the head of the Roman Catholic Church underscored the topicality of inter-Christian dialogue. After that the sides exchanged gifts. On May 24, the commemoration day of Ss Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-the-Apostles, the Teachers of the Slavs, Bishop Arseniy celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St. Catherine’s in Rome. He was assisted by the delegation members in holy orders. After the service, Many Years of Life was sung to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill as it was his name day. The regular Summer Institute in Russia for representatives of the Roman Catholic Church is expected to take place this autumn. DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 7 December 2023 year |
| His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: “The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World” is, I believe, the key document on the agenda of the Pan-Orthodox Council Source: DECR Communicatioin Service February 2, 2016 The participants in the Synaxis of Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches which completed its work in Chambésy a few days ago managed to finalize and unanimously adopt the text of a draft decision of the Pan-Orthodox Council on the Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, who had taken part in the meeting in Chambésy, spoke about this document to the participants in the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church which is being held in the Hall of Church Councils in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. Long discussion and even difficult debates at pre-conciliar meetings preceded the adoption of the document. It was repeatedly examined both by the Holy Synod of the Russian Church and the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission. “It is no surprise that the work on this document was so intensive and time-consuming; it is in this very document that the Orthodox Church expresses her concerted attitude to those difficult and rather alarming processes that are going on in the social, political and moral sphere of society today,” His Holiness said, reminding those present that the document neither gives preference to certain existing political concepts nor establishes superiority of one model of economy over another. According to this document, “in carrying out her salutary mission, the Church again reminds the world that almost all challenges and problems of modern society are caused by the fact that people are forgetting God’s law, loosening moral guidelines, and having distorted views on human freedom, dignity and justice.” His Holiness Patriarch Kirill believes that it is the key document on the agenda of the Holy and Great Council. As he noted, the Russian Orthodox Church made a considerable contribution to drafting the document, as many of the social issues raised in it were already addressed in the “Basis of the Social Concept” and her other important documents. DECR Communication Service 3 февраля 2016 г. Рейтинг: 2 Голосов: 1 Оценка: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Смотри также Комментарии Новые материалы Выбор читателей Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
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