His Holiness Patriarch Kirill sends letters to heads of Normandy Four states, Primates of Local Orthodox Churches, Pope Francis, UN Secretary-General and WCC General Secretary concerning anti-church bills due to be adopted by Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

17/05/2017

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Discriminatory laws prepared against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – a report at the World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians

17/05/2017

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Russia slams desecration of Muslim saint's tomb in Mali

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Metropolitan Hilarion: Western liberals make a grave mistake by imposing totalitarian standards on free people

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Patriarch Kirill’s statement on disturbances in Cairo

The Russian Orthodox Church has followed the developments in Egypt with concern and bitterness. Blood has been spilt and Christian churches have been destroyed again. There is another manifestation of growing intolerance towards Christians and their legal and physical vulnerability in the Egyptian society.

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English version of Patriarch Kirill’s book presented at London book fair

A presentation of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia’s book entitled Freedom and Responsibility. In a Search for Harmony. Human Rights and Personal Dignity took place on April 11, 2011, at the London International Book Fair.

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Human Rights and Moral Responsibility

Paper by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad (now Patriarch of Russia) presented at the 10-th World Russian People’s Council.

23.05.2006

For Russia and her peoples in the 21st century, questions of science and technology, the economy and social development will most likely remain important, if not of primary importance. It is clear, however, that the energy necessary for any kind of human endeavor can be drawn only from the spiritual realm.

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