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by bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | Church in Europe, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, World Council of Churches | 0 |
A delegation from the World Council of Churches traveled to Moscow this week to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill and other members of the Russian Orthodox Church in a bid to clarify his position on the war in Ukraine.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 8, 2022 | Church in Europe, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
On Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 70th birthday, the country’s leading Orthodox prelate has praised his leadership as divinely orchestrated and has urged citizens to offer two days of prayer for his health.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2022 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, lead, News, nuclear disarmament, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
Less than a month after meeting briefly with Pope Francis in Kazakhstan, one of the Russian Orthodox Church’s most senior prelates has said that relations between the two churches are more or less at a standstill.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Church in Asia, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
One of the Russian Orthodox Church’s top-ranking clerics has said Pope Francis’s remark earlier this year that their patriarch shouldn’t be a government “altar boy” hurt efforts toward building Christian unity.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Associated Press, Church in Asia, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal Trips, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis | 0 |
Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Holy See’s strained relations with China are the backdrop to Pope Francis’s visit this week to the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Associated Press, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal Trips, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis had hoped his trip to Kazakhstan this week would offer a chance to meet with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church — who has justified the war in Ukraine — and plead for peace. Patriarch Kirill bowed out a few weeks ago.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 12, 2022 | Congress of World and Traditional Religions, Featured, From the Pope, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan visit, News, Patriarch Kirill, Sunday Angelus | 0 |
Pope Francis asked Christians to pray for him before he embarks on a three-day visit to Kazakhstan.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 12, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, China, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal travel, Papal Trips, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, Vatican-China, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
Popes seem to have a habit of visiting Kazakhstan amid major crises and conflicts that risk fracturing regional stability and splintering its diverse religious and ethnic communities, and Pope Francis’s visit this week is no exception.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Putin's altar boy, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who was expected to meet Pope Francis at the Congress of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan, will not attend the interreligious gathering in September, a senior Russian Orthodox bishop said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Church in Europe, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop Borys Gudziak has voiced confidence that Pope Francis will in fact visit Ukraine but cautioned that if the pope meets with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in Kazakhstan first, it could send the wrong message.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Church in Europe, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
Ukraine’s top-ranking Catholic prelate in the United States has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of genocide and has said Ukrainians will not back down from Russia’s “imperialist” agenda, but are willing to die to protect their freedom.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 20, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Kazakhstan, News, papal trip, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
While the purpose of Pope Francis’ visit to Kazakhstan will be to attend the Congress of World and Traditional Religions, the interreligious meeting also will serve as the backdrop for his long-awaited meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill.
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