In Moscow a meeting sponsored by the Foreign Ministry with representatives of member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and members of the Orthodox Patriarchate. Cooperation in the defense of traditional values but also other common goals on the geopolitical level under discussion.
Recently transferred from Pskov, Putin's 'spiritual father' - the only counterbalance to Kirill's domination of the Moscow Patriarchate - exploits his position on the front line of the war front by also occupying the social networks with his charismatic profile.
Today's news: US President Joe Biden does not and will not support the Israeli military occupation of the Gaza Strip; 13 young people have already been killed in collapses in school gyms in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang; For People's Unity Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin presents Patriarch Kirill with the Presidential Award for 2023; A 6.9 magnitude earthquake recorded off Indonesia, but there is no danger of a tsunami; An eruption created a new island in the Pacific one kilometre off the coast of Japan.
Kirill's appeal to all the heads of the Orthodox Churches against the ban on Russian jurisdiction of Orthodoxy in Ukraine sanctioned by the Kiev parliament has gone unanswered. While the sending of Metropolitan Tikhon to Crimea, the most contested front line, many are wondering whether this is yet another punishment or a possible ecclesiastic and political exaltation.
Assembly of the igumens and igumene of the Russian Orthodox Church underway in Moscow. The representatives of the Ukrainian monasteries were absent. Metropolitan of Nizhny Novgorod Georgij: