Shepherds prayed about the world – Kommersant

This year, the Orthodox and Catholics celebrated Easter at the same time (in the photo – the procession near the Church of St. John the Baptist in Krasnoyarsk). An important background for a religious holiday was a temporary truce between Russia and Ukraine – two countries with a predominantly Christian population. In the Easter speeches of the leaders of the Eastern and Western churches, a lot of space was given to the hope of the cessation of armed conflicts. “Easter is a Victory Day associated with the victory over the most terrible enemy, over the devil, over the forces of evil, who dominated the world undividedly,” said Patriarch Kirill during a worship in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. “And of course, special wishes to all of us, our people, so that the world, well -being, which in the conditions of modern civilization, develops Huge dangers, so that all this will go somewhere to the side, so that it does not interfere with our people. ” In the official appeal to the Orthodox, he suggested: “We will pray and work so that in the expanses of historical Rus’ a fair and strong world is established and that no forces could destroy the spiritual unity of the people who have gained grace in the Kyiv font of Baptism.”

The Pope Francis, weakened by heavy pneumonia, was only able to briefly congratulate the believers. The full version of his appeal to the “City and Peace” was read out by the head of the papal liturgical ceremonies of Monsignor Diego Raveli. The pontiff called for the cessation of all armed conflicts on the planet. “From the Temple of the Holy Sepulcher, the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, where this year the Catholics and Orthodox celebrate Easter on the same day, let the light of the world shine throughout the Holy Earth and the whole world,” the Pope’s circulation says. “The risen Christ is sophisticated by the Easter Gift of the world on the exhausted Ukraine and encourage all participants in the conflict to continue their efforts to achieve a fair and faint world.”