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| Volume 6 Number 22 - Tuesday, June 1st, 2004 |
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Ukrainian and Russian leaders want unity in Orthodox churches of their countriesUKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR YANUKOVICH FOR UNITED ORTHODOX CHURCH Portal-credo.ru, 30 May 2004 - Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich spoke out in favor of unification of the Ukrainian Orthodox churches. Yanukovich said this to reporters on 30 May after members of the government participated in the festival liturgy for the feast of the Holy Trinity in the cathedral of the Dormition in the Kiev caves lavra, the "proUA.com site reported. "I consider that we most certainly must strive for this and that will be a glorious day when the Orthodox churches unite," V. Yanukovich said. Responding to the reporters' question about what he prayed for in church, the prime minister answered that he asked that God would help Ukraine to overcome adversity and would give happiness to the Ukrainian people. In Ukraine there exist the Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Moscow patriarchate, the Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Kiev patriarchate, and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox church, which is friendly to the latter. (tr. by PDS, posted 30 May 2004) PUTIN WANTS CHURCH REVIVAL
We will do everything possible to create conditions for the full-scale revival of the Russian Orthodox Church and for the restoration of its unity, Putin said at a meeting with the head of the Moscow-based Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexei II and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, Metropolitan Laurus.
The process of reunifying the Russian Orthodox
Church is more than an internal church process,
Putin said. It is a symbol of the revival and
reunification of the Russian people themselves. I
deliberately avoid speaking about two churches
because the Russian Orthodox Church is a single
entity in the mind of the Russian people, the
president added. |
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