On September 2–3, 2025, representatives of the monastic community of the Coptic Church, currently on a pilgrimage to Russia with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Rus', visited churches and monasteries of the Nizhny Novgorod Metropolis.

On August 31, the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, a conciliar service was held at the Church of St. George of the Antiochian Patriarchate in Buenos Aires. The Divine Liturgy was led by the hierarch of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Santiago (James) of Buenos Aires and All Argentina, Bishop John of Caracas and South America (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia), and Bishop Leonid of Argentina and South America.

On September 2, a meeting between His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to the Russian Federation, Tanju Bilgiç, took place at the Patriarchal and Synodal Residence in the Danilov Stavropegial Monastery in Moscow. He was accompanied by the Second Secretary of the Embassy of Turkey, Fatih Mert Arslan.

From August 21 to 29, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', a pilgrimage to Russia was made by thirty deans and senior priests representing 22 countries under the pastoral responsibility of the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa.

On August 31, at the invitation of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' and with the blessing of His Holiness Coptic Patriarch Tawadros II, a delegation of representatives of Egyptian monasticism arrived in Moscow to undertake a pilgrimage to Orthodox monasteries in Russia.

On June 22, during the Sunday service at the Orthodox Church of the Prophet Elijah in Damascus, a suicide terrorist opened fire on the worshipping parishioners before detonating himself. As a result of the terrorist attack, 25 people were killed and more than 60 were wounded. Michel, a 21-year-old, suffered a severe comminuted fracture of his arm. He required complex reconstructive treatment, which could not be provided in Syria.

On 26th August, Mr Anatoly Viktorov, Russia’s Ambassador to Israel, visited the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem.