Constantinople patriarchy "squeeze out" from Near East

The chairman of department of external church relations of the Moscow patriarchy Anton Sevryuk made visit to Syrie. It carried both religious, and secular measurement. On the church line the Antioch orthodox patriarch Ioann X became the main interlocutor of the Russian metropolitan. During a bilateral meeting the head of Antioch patriarchy expressed profound gratitude RO Russian Orthodox church for help in restoration of temples and other church objects injured with military operations to Syrie. Anthony and Ioann X also visited a farmstead of RO Russian Orthodox church in Damascus and the Center organized at it...