The Church of St. Catherine in Vspolie holds September 11 the commemoration service for the victims of global terror.
Photo: Dmitry Lekay
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Moscow Mourns for Victims of Global Terror
The Church of St. Catherine in Vspolie that is located on soil of Moscow Patriarchate’s Representation of the Orthodox Church in America held today, September 11, commemoration service for the victims of global terror. The service was timed to the sixth anniversary of the acts of terrorism in the United States.
First time, the commemoration service for the perished in acts of international terrorism was held September 11, 2001 in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, said Archimandrite Zakhi, who stands for the Representation of the Orthodox Church in America. Six years later, the archimandrite went on, we see that the death toll grew by those perished in London, Sharm el-Sheikh, Moscow, Beslan, Pakistan and in many other places.
The 200-year anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States is celebrated this year. Exactly compassion reveals the most sacred image of unity and mutual understanding of people, the archimandrite emphasized.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed the people attending the service via a special message that was read in the church. Lavrov said that, in Beslan, the terrorists crossed the last line, when, in cold blood and violently, they put to death hundreds of children on the day when they first stepped across the threshold of school. “That’s why we are so sincerely, perhaps, as no one else [would be], feel with the American people and grieve together with them on this day of mourning.”
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