Representatives of the Orthodox community have asked the law-enforcement agencies’ officers to protect the shrines and have prayed to God so that He might bring the arsonists of churches to their senses.
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Patriarch Kirill said the leadership of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and most of its representatives "made extremely politicized statements, which did not help end the civil confrontation."
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew stressed the importance of peaceful coexistence between people of every religion in his speech during the Divine Liturgy that took place in Izmir (Smyrna).
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Russians fled Chechnya following years of war and instability.
The Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor which for many centuries was the haven for Christians of north-eastern Syria today has lost its Christian name—now its occupants-islamists call it “Wilayat ul-Hayr”.