Tag: Metropolitan Hilarion

The Supreme court of Turkey has allowed President Erdogan to change the status of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Turkish authorities are going to turn one of the most famous Orthodox churches in the current mosque. How does the Russian Orthodox Church? About the same time, Metropolitan Hilarion said in an interview with TV channel "Russia 24".

The Western media discuss serious contention that the protests against police brutality in the United States planted between President Donald trump and the Pope. The TV channel "Russia 24" commented on the situation Chairman of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion.

Russia will not face a ban on the division of people into men and women, as well as on the use of the words themselves "man" and woman," said the Chairman of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion.

The head of the Synodal Department for external Church relations Metropolitan Hilarion urges Russians not to visit this summer other countries, in particular Italy, Greece and Israel, which are traditional places of pilgrimage of Orthodox Christians.

Chairman of the Synodal Department for external Church relations Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Metropolitan Hilarion expects that the forthcoming message of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, which he will address to the Federal Assembly on 15 January, will appeal to man and imbued with care about people.