Russian Church expects preparatory work for All-Orthodox Council to be resumed under Patriarch Kirill
17. February 2009 - 9:22The Russian Orthodox Church believes that preparations for the All-Orthodox Council will be more active in the nearest future. "We expect that preparatory process for the great and holy All-Orthodox Council of the Eastern Church will be revived," Inter-Orthodox Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archpriest Nikolay Balashov said on Friday at a telebridge between Moscow and Paris.
Unidentified delinquents burnt down an Orthodox church in Sakhalin
17. February 2009 - 9:19On Sunday night Orthodox Church was burnt in the village of Yasnoye, the Tymovo District, the Sakhalin Region. "Local residents, who live near the church, saw the church on fire at two a.m." Parochial Rector Fr. Konstantin told Interfax.
Creating of federal religious TV channel and guard Internet from immorality
17. February 2009 - 9:17Vice Speaker of the Federation Council Alexander Torshin supported the idea of establishing the Public Council on Morality at the television and backed up the federal religious TV channel. "It should be done because our opponents have tactical superiority at the screen," he said on Sunday at the opening ceremony of the 17th Christmas readings in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
Russian Patriarch calls for powerful Orthodox youth movement
17. February 2009 - 9:14The new Patriarch of Moscow called for creating a powerful Orthodox youth movement in Russia which would have a grassroots group in "each of our educational institutions." "I would be happy if you and I could start a congress at Luzhniki [a stadium in Moscow] with 100,000 young people present. But we have to work very well for such a congress to become a reality," Patriarch Kirill said at a meeting in Moscow with Orthodox youth.
Celebrating of Feast Day of the Great Martyr Theodore of Tyre in Cameroon
17. February 2009 - 9:10His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa is undertaking a missionary trip to the Cameroon , from 10th February 2009. During this trip, His Beatitude, accompanied by His Eminence Gregory, Metropolitan of the Cameroon, will meet with State Officials of the Cameroon, the Greek and Egyptian diplomatic representatives, members of the Hellenic Communities; he will visit the missionary centres in the far off areas of Northern Cameroon - Maroua, Gorua and Katrang - he will serve Divine Liturgies and will perform openings of Holy Churches, he will inaugurate Parish Centres and Institutions, and will hold synaxes for the clergy of the areas he will travel through.
