His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
A mere list of these historical stories shows that relations between our two Churches are very special. We were always together, even in the hard post-war time when we supported each other, exchanged delegations, and all this continues today.
Vasily Pisarevsky
The data from recent polls in social networks is even more indicative. 67% of all users of the popular Russian social network VKontakte voted for burying him, as did 85% of the Facebook users who participated in the polls conducted on the RIA Novosti platforms. So how do people push forward an issue that seems to have reached a dead end but which troubles the obvious majority of Russian citizens regardless of political or religious convictions? This was the topic of the press conference.
Reverend Donald Reeves MBE
In early April, the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, announced during a conference in Brussels an EU declaration recognizing five of the most important sacred places in the Mediterranean region. Alongside Mecca, Jerusalem, Mount Athos and the Vatican, there are also the Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Kosovo
When Ali Harun Saliman fled relentless bombing and looming famine in Sudan's Nuba Mountains seven months ago, the Episcopal pastor left nearly all his possessions but took the two things most dear: his family and most of his congregation.
A controversy over a historically Georgian monastery in Jerusalem is further complicating already-strained ties between Tel Aviv and Tbilisi.
