Metropolitan Sergei of Singapore
“In your interview you clearly allege that the activities of the Moscow Patriarchate in Southeast Asia are uncanonical. I take the liberty to remind you the history of the emergence of Orthodoxy in the region: Russian priests began their pastoral ministry in China in 1685, St. Nicholas (Kasatkin) came to Japan in 1861, and the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Korea was established in 1897.”
May his memory be eternal!
The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem views the attempts of the radical organization, Ateret Cohanim, to seize church properties located in Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate and al-Mu’athamiyah, as a strike to the indigenous Christian presence in the Holy City.
Roman Catholic Bishop of Kosovo Dode Gjergji and the Albanian Archbishop of Bar (Montenegro) Zef Gashi with their clergy and a group of believers served a mass at the remains of the Orthodox Christian cathedral of St. Nicholas in the vicinity of the Novo Brdo medieval fortress.
Matfey Shaheen
A U.S. general views the influence of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Serbia as a problem for the USA and the West.