by Sean Reilly | Sep 2, 2008
A Russian Orthodox Church missionary has defended Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II against charges that he is a Georgian nationalist, whilst other leading Russian clerics have warned against the war between their country and Georgia turning into an ethnic vendetta...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 9, 2008
After a visit to Russia, the Vatican’s top official for Christian unity has said a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church is “possible”. Such an encounter would be the first-ever meeting between a...
by Sean Reilly | May 13, 2008
President Vladimir Putin’s successor, Dmitry Medvedev, was inaugurated in the Kremlin with pomp, circumstance, and prayers from Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church – writes Sophia Kishkovsky. After the main ceremony on 7 May, at a moleben,...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 2, 2007
President Vladimir Putin has attended a memorial service conducted by Patriarch Aleksei II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, at a church built near a Soviet police secret killing field, where at least 20 000 people were executed at the peak of dictator Joseph...
