Patriarch of Moscow and Archbishop of Canterbury issue joint statement on persecuted Christians

Source: Basilica News Agency

November 22, 2017

Photo: patriarchia.ru Photo: patriarchia.ru
    

On Tuesday, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Archbishop Justin of Canterbury issued a joint statement on persecuted Christians.

The meeting between Patriarch Kirill and the Primate of the Anglican Community, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, took place at St Daniel Monastery in Moscow, on November 21.

Joint Declaration by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword? As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.’ (Romans 8. 35-37)

  1. We, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan, thank God for the opportunity to meet in Moscow in order to with one voice before the entire world bear witness to our brothers and sisters who are persecuted for faith in Christ. We cannot remain indifferent to the afflictions of our sisters and brothers, for ‘if one member suffers, all suffer together with it: if one member is honoured, all rejoice together with it.’ (1 Corinthians 12. 26).
  2. In many countries of the Middle East and Africa, there is persecution of Christians, manifested in mass killings, the barbaric destruction of churches, the desecration of holy sites and the expulsion of millions of people from their homes. Our hearts are pained by the mass exodus of the Christian population from those places where the Good News began to be spread throughout the world. Christians also suffer more subtle forms of discrimination where life is made so difficult that it is easier for them to leave their ancient homeland than to stay.
  3. At the present moment, the war has taken away tens of thousands of lives and left millions of people homeless and without the means for existence.

...Read the rest at Basilica News Agency.

11/24/2017

See also
Patriarch Kirill: Persecution of Middle East Christians surpasses scope of Soviet Russian persecution Patriarch Kirill: Persecution of Middle East Christians surpasses scope of Soviet Russian persecution Patriarch Kirill: Persecution of Middle East Christians surpasses scope of Soviet Russian persecution Patriarch Kirill: Persecution of Middle East Christians surpasses scope of Soviet Russian persecution
“That which the Christian world is now facing, it has never faced before. By the number of Christians killed, the persecution in Russia was more brutal and more extensive, but if we look at the proportions not in absolute, but relative terms, then the events in the Middle East can be called a genocide of the Christian population.” Comments on the Joint Declaration with the Pope Comments on the Joint Declaration with the Pope
Priest George Maximov Comments on the Joint Declaration with the Pope Comments on the Joint Declaration with the Pope
Priest George Maximov
"On one hand, there are in the document not a few words with which we can agree. But for all of these, there are also expressions which are by no means indisputable, and sometimes erroneous." His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: An attempt to expel Christianity from the Middle East is a tragedy of historic scale that affects the whole world His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: An attempt to expel Christianity from the Middle East is a tragedy of historic scale that affects the whole world His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: An attempt to expel Christianity from the Middle East is a tragedy of historic scale that affects the whole world His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: An attempt to expel Christianity from the Middle East is a tragedy of historic scale that affects the whole world
In the introductory part of his report to the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia raised the problem of global terrorism.
Comments
Anthony 11/25/2017 3:53 pm
Lovely. I'm sure empty platitudes will do much. Perhaps Pat Kyrill should have rather asked the atheist Archbishop Mr Welby to put pressure on his government to desist from destabilising the ME, and arming their terrorist friends. Of course this is the same Mr Welby who tearfully asked where God was on the night when terrorists struck in Paris. Funny, he never asked where God was when his country was bombing, pillaging and plundering other nations, with mass misery, and carnage now occurring on a daily basis. Truly a tragic situation.
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