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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 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 28, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, President Vladimir Putin, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Russian soldiers who die in the line of duty in Ukraine have all of their sins forgiven, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church proclaimed in a sermon, comparing their sacrificial death to that of Jesus.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022 Papal Trip to Kazakhstan - Live Coverage, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Cardinal Joseph Zen, China, inter-faith, Kazakhstan, lead, News, News Analysis, Russian Orthodox Church, Xi Jinping | 0 |
Embracing the ecumenical movement has strengthened the moral authority of popes considerably, but also made them more vulnerable to pressures they can’t directly control.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | conversion, Featured, News, Russian Orthodox Church | 0 |
One joy of the Catholic life is receiving good news from the darkest places. Few places have seemed darker in the past year than Ukraine, currently under brutal assault from Russia. The Ukrainian people have shown remarkable courage in the face of vicious aggression, but the military front lines are not the only location of […]
by 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 | Aug 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope Francis, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has canceled his planned attendance at an interfaith meeting in Kazakhstan next month where he was expected to meet with Pope Francis, in a sign of further deterioration in relations over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Papal Trips, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russian Orthodox Church, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis will travel next month to Kazakhstan, where he could meet with Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has justified Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 28, 2022 | News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, The Dispatch, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
In arranging to meet in September with Russia’s Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis evidently has two goals in view: peace in Ukraine and progress in Catholic-Orthodox relations. While both are highly desirable, it is far from […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 19, 2022 | ambassador, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, News, papal trip, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Since the beginning of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Pope Francis has consistently expressed his closeness to the people of the country and reminded Christians on an almost weekly basis to not grow indifferent to the tragedy of war.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 30, 2022 | Cardinal Kurt Koch, Church in Europe, lead, News, Orthodoxy, Patriarch Bartholomew, Patriarch Kirill, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
In a new interview with a German newspaper, the Vatican’s point man on ecumenical affairs has said Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill’s defense of the war in Ukraine amounts to “heresy,” and has fractured the unit of the Orthodox community.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 3, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, European union, News, Patriarch Kirill, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Thanks to the insistence of Hungary, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church has been removed from the latest round of European Union sanctions to punish Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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