15.01.2020
«Betet ohne Unterlass!» - so ruft Paulus die Gemeinden auf (1 Thess 5,17). Doch wie ist eine solche betende Existenz möglich?
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Icons
The Study Centre for Eastern Churches wishes Merry Christmas and God's blessing for the new year 2020!
21.12.2019
The Study Centre has prepared three articles on icons and iconography for the "Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung" No. 23, 12 December 2019. We present these articles as our Christmas greeting present, as icons…
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Cardinal Koch
On 16th December 2019 Cardinal Kurt Koch gave a lecture in Chambésy on the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue.
21.12.2019
On 16th December 2019 Cardinal Koch gave a lecture in Chambésy on the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue, entitled: "Vers l'unité de l'Église en Orient et en Occident. Les chemins pour surmonter les divisions…
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09.12.2019
From 1 to 5 February 2020, the doctoral programme DE CIVITATE HOMINIS invites to a study trip to Albania. During the trip we get to know, assisted by Nathan Hoppe and his team, the missionary initiatives…
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Sermon
Opening of the the new legislative period
09.12.2019
On 2 December, an ecumenical prayer for parliamentarians and their relatives and friends took place in the Bern Cathedral to mark the opening of the new legislative period of the Federal Assembly. The…
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Bishop Irenei
Public Conference by Bishop Irenei Steenberg on 31st October 2019
22.10.2019
Bishop Irenei Steenberg is Bishop of London and Western Europe for the "Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia" (ROCOR) and a member of the International Theological Dialogue Commission between the Orthodox…
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Nikodim
Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) was born 90 years ago.
20.10.2019
Prof. Andrej Danilov from our partner institute in Minsk and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow honor Metropolitan Nikodim who was born in 1929 and died in Rome in 1978 in the arms of Pope John Paul I.
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Bishop Irinei
Criticism from Serbia on the procedure of the Church of Greece in the Ukrainian question
20.10.2019
The Serbian bishop Irinei von Backa has criticized in a statement the way of proceeding of the Church of Greece in the Ukrainian question. He warns of a schism in worldwide orthodoxy and hopes for a conciliatory…
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