UGCC delegate takes part in plenary session of Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee

The 4th plenary session of the Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee took place in St. Petersburg on February 26, 2014. Acting as its moderators were co-chairmen of the Committee: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow; and pastor Vitaliy Vlasenko, chairman of the Department for External Relations of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists.

The participants claimed that Christians should openly express their common opinion on vices of society and feel free to call sin by its right name. Special attention was paid to the problem of re-establishing the traditional understanding of family. The suggestions were made to celebrate the Year of Family, the Day of Family, and the Year of Sanctity of Life (aimed against abortion and euthanasia).

During the plenary session was the round tables discussions. Among the speaker were Rev. Dr Ihor Shaban, representative of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, who spoke about the importance of traditional understanding of marriage and about projects for rendering assistance to orphans in Ukraine.

Adopted at the meeting were the Appeal of Participants in the 4th Plenary Session of the Christian Interconfessional Consultative Committee and the Communique. The participants in the meeting also issued a statement on the situation in Ukraine.

05.03.2014, 2105 просмотров.