BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

21/04/2009

Belarus could be fine place for Moscow Patriarch meeting with Pope - official

Minsk, April 21, Interfax - The Belarusian Orthodox Church says that Belarus is a fine place for a possible meeting between the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and the Pope.

"Belarus as a possible place for a meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch has a number of historic peculiarities and advantages. Confessional balance is kept in Belarus," press secretary of the Belarusian Exarchate Andrey Petrashkevich told Interfax.

"The problem of the union which was imposed in the 17th century did not spread across the Belarusian land because of its bloody nature," he said.

"Being a relative center of Europe, Belarus could serve as an example of pacifying church-state policy if the church's and the state's approaches to the meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch are coinciding," Petrashkevich said.

Source:

http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5955

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