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Wednesday October 24, 2007

Ortodoxos plantean serias demandas al CMI
Ortodoxos plantean serias demandas al CMI

Russian religious leaders say Yeltsin transformed Church-State relations

ALC/ENI, April 24, 2007

Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church has praised Boris Yeltsin, the first president Taxi Heathrow Airport of Russia, who has died of heart failure in Moscow, for enabling a religious revival that took place across the former communist country during his presidency.

"In the new Russia, to the building of which the departed president directed his efforts, the Russian Orthodox Church was given the long-awaited opportunity to carry out its witness and service without restrictions," wrote the Patriarch in a letter of condolence to Yeltsin's widow, Naina Yeltsina.

Source: Ecumenical News Internacional: ENI-07-0314 www.eni.ch