On February 21, 2025, Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia met with Mr. Madi Atamkulov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Serbia, at the Patriarchal Court in Belgrade.
Both parties expressed their satisfaction with the strong relations between the two states and their peoples. Ambassador Atamkulov extended an official invitation from the President of Kazakhstan for His Holiness to attend the 8th Congress of World Leaders and Traditional Religions in Astana on September 17 and 18 of this year.
The meeting was also attended by Mr. Abzal Imankulov, Consul of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Protopresbyter-Stavrophor Đorđe Stojisavljević, Mrs. Vesna Filipović, translator, and Mrs. Olivera Jovanović, Editor-in-Chief and responsible publisher of Orthodoxy, the newspaper of the Serbian Patriarchate.