Belarus – Alexander Lukashenko meets with Cardinal Koch, Metropolitan Filaret
15/11/2011There are no inter-confessional conflicts in Belarus. The country may serve as a model of good relations between different religions, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said as he met...
View ArticleLeaders of churches ignored address of political prisoners’ families
10.01.2012Only a pastor of Minsk charismatic church “New Life” has answered the open letter of wives and mothers of the prisoners of conscience in Belarus, published on the eve of Christmas.The...
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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk awarded degree of doctor of theology...
8/3/2012On March 6, 2012, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, in his capacity as rector of the Sts Cyril and Methodius...
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Metropolitan Filaret presents church awards to Athos monks
Bealrus Orthodox Church – Moscow PatriarchateMINSK, 20 November (BelTA) – Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk Filaret, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, received a delegation of the Athos monastery...
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Belarusian President visits All Saint Temple in Minsk
7/1/13Alexander Lukashenko, his youngest son Nikolai and Metropolitan Filaret lighted the Christmas candle in honor of John the Bishop. The Metropolitan presented the icon of the Birth of Christ to the...
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Alexander Lukashenko visits Minsk Church of All Saints
MINSK, 6 May (BelTA) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko visited the Church of All Saints in Minsk on Easter Day celebrated by Orthodox Christians on 5 May, BelTA has learnt.The Belarusian head of...
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Thousands of people prayed with heads of Orthodox Churches in Minsk
Minsk, July 29, Interfax – Some 20,000 people attended the liturgy served by the heads of the Orthodox Churches in a Minsk square on Monday.“One of the first lands to be christened after Kiev was the...
View ArticlePatriarch Kirill gives consent to Belarus’ Exarchate office in Moscow
14/11/13MINSK, 12 November (BelTA) – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill gave consent to the proposal of the Belarusian Orthodox Church to open an office of the Belarusian Exarchate in Moscow,...
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Metropolitan Filaret retires after 35 years of heading Belarusian Orthodox...
Moscow, December 25, Interfax – Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk is retiring having reached the age of 75. The decision was made at a Wednesday session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox...
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Metropolitan Filaret awarded St. Alexis Order First Class
25/3/15Metropolitan Filaret, the Honorary Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, was awarded the Order of St. Alexis, the Metropolitan of Moscow, First Class, of the Russian Orthodox Church.On behalf of...
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Belarusians paid last respect to the national poet Nil Gilevich
Nadezhda Filipchik – For OCP News Service – April 2016Minsk- Belarus: On the 1st of April thousands of Belarusians gathered in the cathedral of St. Peter and Paul In Minsk in order to pay a last...
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