Tag: Met. Hilarion of Volokolamsk
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Russian Orthodox leader says church will not interfere in politics
Ecumenical News International / 30 April 2010 By Jonathan Luxmoore Warsaw, 30 April (ENI)–A leader in the Russian Orthodox Church has insisted his church has no wish to be an official State denomination and will never side with any single political force. “The threat that the church will be used by government doesn’t exist today,”…
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Metropolitan Hilarion to visit Italy
Moscow clearly has taken the lead in world Orthodoxy. +++++++++++++++++ Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, will visit Italy from May 14th to 20th, 2010, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. The programme of his stay will include a visit…
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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Culture is at risk of becoming anti-culture without the Church
Brilliant! Met. Hilarion’s warning deals with what Nietzsche called the “transvaluation of values” — what his dark prophesy warned would happen in the West because “God is Dead,” by which he meant that Western culture was entering into a period where it functioned within the cultural structures shaped by Christianity but without concrete, existential communion…
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Russian church leaders defend marriage, speak out on family crisis
Russian Orthodox Church leaders called on Christians on Thursday to be firm in defending traditional marriage and lamented the family crisis in the country. According to some estimates, over half of the marriages in Russia end in divorce. Women in the 140-million-strong country undergo some 1.5 million abortions annually. “We, Christians of different denominations, should…