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Executive Secretary of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Service Hegumen Seraphim (Kravchenko) visited Tskhinval

diaconia.ru — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0400

On August 25 sojourning with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Russia in North Ossetia, Hegumen Seraphim (Kravchenko), Executive Secretary of the Department for Church Charity and Social Service, visited Tskhinval and some settlements of South Ossetia.

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Executive Secretary of the Department for Church Charity and Social Service Hegumen Seraphim (Kravchenko) visits North Ossetia

diaconia.ru — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0400

On August 22 with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Russia Hegumen Seraphim (Kravchenko), Executive Secretary of the Synodal Department for Church Charity arrived in North Ossetia to work out some practical questions connected with rendering humanitarian aid to victims of Georgian-South Ossetian conflict.

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The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church called upon diocesan Hierarchs to take part in all-Church project on giving assistance to the population of South Ossetia

diaconia.ru — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0400

His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Russia addressed� a circular letter to diocesan Hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church

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Press-Conference will be held in RIA �Novosti�.

diaconia.ru — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0400

The press-conference will be held on August 15 at 12:30 in the� RIA �Novosti� press-centre. The theme of the press-conference is �Participation of the Russian Orthodox Church in rendering assistance to victims of humanitarian catastrophe in South Ossetia.

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The Mourning Day

diaconia.ru — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0400

The day of� August 13 in Russia was announced the mourning day due to the conflict in South Ossetia.

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Metropolitan Sergey of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk is awarded the Order of Saint Prince Vladimir, Second Class

diaconia.ru — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:00:00 +0300

On January 30, 2008,� it was 25 years since His Eminence Metropolitan Sergey of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk, Chairman of the Department for Church Charity and Social Service of the Moscow Patriarchate,� was consecrated as a bishop.

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Sisters of mercy feeding homeless in Vladivostok

diaconia.ru — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:00:00 +0300

It is for four years now that a sisterhood has been working at the Parish of the Dormition in Vladivostok. The sisters feed the homeless three times a week.

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About two dozens of chapels and prayer rooms functioning in hospitals in Yekaterinburg diocese

diaconia.ru — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:00:00 +0300

The Sverdlovsk regional healthcare ministry and the diocese of Yekaterinburg have signed a cooperation agreement. The first program for their cooperation was worked out in 1994.

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Social services in the diocese of Irkutsk and Angarsk

diaconia.ru — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0400

In 2005 the Department for charity and mercy was founded in the Irkutsk and Angarsk diocese. Priest Alexander Vasilenko was apppointed head of the department.

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Social Service of the Astrakhan and Yenotaev Diocese

diaconia.ru — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0400

The Astrakhan and Yenotaev diocese was established in 1602. Since October 1992 Archbishop Iona (Karpukhin) has been administrating� the diocese. During the period of fifteen years� that vladyka has been the ruling hierarch� of the Astrakhan diocese some great changes took place in the diocese.

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