DECR chairman takes part in the 5th Baku International Humanitarian Forum
30. September 2016 - 11:10On 29 September 2016, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrived in Baku to take part in the 5th Baku International Humanitarian Forum. He was met at the local airport by Archbishop Alexander of Baku and Azerbaijan; Rev. Dimitry Safonov, DECR secretary for interreligious relations; Mr. A.V. Barkov, counselor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Azerbaijan; and Mr. D. Imamaliyev, counselor of Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Russia.
Russia: Patriarch Kirill leads first-ever Russian Orthodox liturgy with sign language
29. September 2016 - 10:24Moscow: Hundreds of Orthodox believers with impaired hearing attended the first-ever Russian Orthodox liturgy accompanied by sign language interpretation at the Church of All Saints Whose Light Shone Forth in the Russian Land in Moscow’s Novokosino district, Sunday.
The liturgy was led by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Russia.
Source: Mospat.ru
750 school bags and supplies offered by the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău at the beginning of the school year
28. September 2016 - 15:11At the beginning of the school year, 15 September 2016, the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău offered 5,300 packages of school supplies and sweets, and 750 school bags and supplies to several students coming from financially fragile families, but also to students with good school results from Bacău, Roman, Moineşti, Oneşti, Sascut and Buhuşi.
Orthodox Kindergarten opened in Giurgiu
28. September 2016 - 15:09The Diocese of Giurgiu opened an Orthodox Kindergarten, the official diocesan website informs.
His Grace Ambrozie, Bishop of Giurgiu, visited Thursday, 15 September 2016, together with the administrative vicar, Archimandrite Teodor Serban, the Orthodox Kindergarten Little Angels of the Diocese of Giurgiu.
Antioch, Romania and Georgia celebrated together Saint Anthimos the Ivirite
28. September 2016 - 11:03Hundreds of faithful were present at the Divine Liturgy officiated Tuesday, 27 September 2016, in Bucharest, on the feast of Hieromartyr Saint Anthimos the Ivirite. His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all East, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, and Metropolitan John of Rustavi, representative of the Patriarch of Georgia, concelebrated.