President Yoweri Museveni has donated Shs 300 million towards the construction of the Uganda Orthodox Cathedral at Lubya Hill, in Rubaga Division in Kampala. He donated Shs 30m cash and pledged a further Shs 270m, saying he hadn’t known the extent of the construction costs. Museveni announced the donation while presiding over celebration marking 100…

With a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Ioann of Chersonese of Western Europe, head of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Western Europe, sent a cleric of the Diocese of Chersonese, Rev. Sergiy Kim, to Ethiopia to celebrate Pascal divine services for the staff members of the Russian Federation embassy…

On 6th May 2019, a traditional Easter reception was given at St. Nicholas Patriarchal Cathedral in New York City on behalf of Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, administrator of the Patriarchal parishes in the USA, and Mr. Sergey Ovsyannikov, Russia’s Consul General in New York. Among those who attended the reception were Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America…

The head of the OCU conducts secret negotiations with the Local Churches and is confident that some of them will recognize his structure before the end of the year. During 2019, several Local Orthodox Churches should recognize the OCU, the head of the new church structure, Epiphany Dumenko, prophesied in an interview with the first…

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The Orthodox faithful of Shanghai had double cause for celebration this year on the feast of Pascha, as they were able to celebrate the feast in the Cathedral of the “Surety of Sinners” Icon of the Mother of God for the first time in more than 50 years. Several hundred believers from China, Russia, Serbian,…

On 6 May 2019, Archpriest Sergy Zvonarev, secretary for far abroad countries, Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with Mr. Magne Bart, head of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Delegation in the RF, Belarus and Moldova. They were joined in the meeting, which took place at the DECR premises, by…

A meeting was held at the Georgian Patriarchate over the issue of David Gareja, a rock-hewn Georgian Orthodox monastery complex located in the Kakheti region of Eastern Georgia. Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II hosted Sheikh of All Georgia Ramin Igidov and east Georgia Mufti Iasin Aliyev together with church officials. “The guests underlined that…

Meetings were held with the Ambassador of Azerbaijan and the representative of the head of the Caucasian Muslims’ Union in connection with the Davit Gareji issue in the Patriarchate of Georgia on May 4-5, – head of the Patriarchate’s press service, Andria Jagmaidze, reports. “The Patriarchate will be actively involved in solving the problem related…