GEORGIAN & RUSSIAN PATRIARCHS TAKE STAND FOR PEACE

Phone talk of the head of Georgian Orthodox Church with Metropolitan Kirill, chairman of Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations

His Holiness and Beatitude Iliya II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, had a telephone talk on 14 August with Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations.

They discussed the tragic consequences of the events last week, focusing on the condition of the civilian population in the military conflict zone.

They approved the peacemaking stand taken by the two Churches and agreed to maintain contacts and cooperation in efforts to overcome the grave consequences that the military confrontation has had for the civilians.