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[News] Metropolitan Nicholas' funeral in Johnstown, PA attended by hundreds Hundreds turned out Friday morning to remember the spiritual leader of the American Carpathos-Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Nicholas Smisko, at Christ The Savior Cathedral in Johnstown.

[News] The First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad sends condolences to the clergy and flock of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA on the repose of Metropolitan Nicholas On March 13, 2011, the Primate of the American Carpatho-Russian Diocese reposed in the Lord after a battle with cancer.

[News] Russian church project chosen in Paris The Franco-Russian SADE-Arch group of architects has been chosen to build the white building from among 10 bidders.

[News] The First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad Sends His Representative to Archangel Michael Church in Cannes On March 16, 2011, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, sent Protopriest Michael Boikov to Cannes, France, to serve at Archangel Michael Church as his personal representative.

[News] Japanese Orthodox clergy unharmed, Russian clergy and nuns not evacuating Priest of the Japanese Autonomous Orthodox Church Nicholai Dimitriev, who serves in the city of Hakodate, has reported that contact has now been made with all the Orthodox priests in the country

[News] Priest Vasily Tachugi makes contact with Japan clergy; Japanese Orthodox Church opens donation account Priest Vasily Tachugi from Itinoseki and his wife have made contact with clergy of the Japanese Orthodox Church for the first time since the onset of the recent natural disaster. They are alive, and the church is not destroyed.

[News] Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk completes his working trip to the USA Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, made a brief working trip to the USA from March 15-16, 2011, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

[News] Orthodox priest in Ivory Coast tells of extreme danger to community during current civil war Priest Jeremiah Behanzin, rector of the Orthodox parish in the Ivory Coast capital of Abidjan, told of the catastrophic situation in his community in a country where order has completely deteriorated, reports the French Orthodox website, Orthodoxie.

[News] Hawaii mission makes aide plea for the Orthodox Church of Japan The St. Juvenaly Orthodox Mission in Hawaii has placed donation information and links on their website to help Orthodox Christians suffering from the recent catastrophe in Japan.

[News] First Orthodox Monastery In Uganda Established On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, March 13th, the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodoros II, after the Divine Liturgy, accompanied by His Eminence Metropolitan of Kampala Mr. Jonah, the Clergy, the Egyptian Ambassador, the Muslim religious worker in the area and many visitors went to an adjacent area of ​​the Parish of Anthony the Great Monte and held the ceremony to found the first Orthodox Monastery in Africa, dedicated to Saint Mary of Egypt.

[News] Information released on scope of damage to the Japanese Orthodox Church Information on the scope of the damage to the Japanese Orthodox Church as a result of the recent earthquake and tsunami have been provided by the Eastern Japan Diocese.

[News] Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with OCA hierarchs On March 15, 2011, His Eminence, Metropolitan HILARION of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, visited the United States with the blessing of His Holiness, Patriarch KIRILL, of Moscow and All Russia.