By Kostas Onisenko
“The Russian Orthodox Church has always been committed to maintaining the dialogue between the religious communities of Armenia and Azerbaijan and is ready to carry out this mission from now on,” said the head of the Synodal Department for Russian Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media, Vladimir Legoida.
His statement came after hostilities broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the unrecognized state of Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday morning.
According to Legoida, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow “is praying for the soonest peaceful resolution of the conflict” and added that “The Primate believes that the role of the spiritual leaders of the two countries is of great importance, and they must make every effort to establish peace.”