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Romania’s Ministry of National Defence has announced that they plan to restore the Romanian Honorary Cemetery in Mana, Orhei district, the Republic of Moldova. The cemetery shelters the tombs of 16 Romanian soldiers who died on battlefields during World War II. The Ministry added that they will take ‘all necessary steps to restore the tombs…
“Patience – This is a great virtue,” the Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, emphasized this week, in a statement to commemorate the 107th anniversary of the birth of Elder Cleopa Ilie. The Romanian Patriarch spoke at the Patriarchical seat in Bucharest to gathered Orthodox Church clerics, where he noted that patience is often…
A seven-phase vote to elect a new lower house of parliament in India next month is judged as crucial for conditions affecting Christians in the country, and Christianity in general in the Indian sub-continent. Voting begins today and concludes on May 19, a period deemed as necessary to allow some 900 million people to cast…
Bidzina Ivanishvili, Chairman of the Georgian Dream party, met with Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II, – the Patriarchate reports. “Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia hosted Mr. Bidzina Ivanishvili together with the clergy on April 11. Among other issues, the problems of the population and, in general, the socio-economic situation in the country were discussed at…
On 9 April 2019, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with students of the Higher Diplomatic Courses of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Attending the meeting were Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov), vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), acting rector…
President of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy thanked the Cyprus Church for upholding inter-Orthodox dialogue on the religious situation in Ukraine. The President of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO) Sergei Gavrilov met with His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos II of New Justiniana and all of Cyprus in Limassol, reports rusnext.ru. During the meeting, current issues…
An exhibition at the Holy Metropolis of St. Petersburg and Ladoga’s history museum focuses on the role and heroism of Orthodox clerics in the wars fought by the motherland in the 20th century. His Eminence, Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga attended the opening of the exhibition.
The Moscow-based Institute for Bible Translation, a prominent organization that translates, publishes and distributes the Gospels in the languages of the non-Slavic peoples living in Russia and the other CIS countries, this week announced a new edition of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the Lak language. The Lak people,…