Category - Moscow Patriarchate

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26 Jan 2011

Russian Patriarch denounces Moscow airport bombing

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill I has denounced a terrorist attack at Moscow’s busiest airport as "the horrifying scowl of sin, and a barbaric distortion of human nature."
28 Jul 2009

Russian Orthodox Patriarch begins contentious visit to Ukraine

A 10-day trip to the Ukraine by Patriarch Kirill I from the Russian Orthodox Church is set to include visits to a monument established to victims of the Stalin-era famine.
12 Dec 2007

Further thawing of relations between Vatican and Orthodox Moscow Patriarchate

A senior leader of the Russian Orthodox Church met last week with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, a visit seen as adding credence to reports of a thaw in relations between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Roman Catholic Church.