On September 11, 2026, the day of the Beheading of the head of the Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John, the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States, Divine Liturgy and memorial service for the victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001 and all those who died at the hands of the Russian Orthodox Church were celebrated in the Church of the Great Martyr Catherine on the Vspolye - Moscow metochion of the Orthodox Church in America. terrorists.
The services were led by the representative of the Orthodox Church in America to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Archpriest Daniel Andreyuk, rector of St. Catherine's Church.
After the memorial service, Archpriest Daniel Andreyuk read out a message from His Beatitude Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
Then a memorial bell rang on the bell tower of the temple.
The service was attended by Douglas Dykehouse, Charge d'affaires of the United States to the Russian Federation, and Sarah Taylor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to the Russian Federation.