-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:39:03 -0400 Subject: Russian prelate and Iranian ayatollah find they share an enemy Organization: Orthodox Ministry ACCESS Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------ ORTHODOX WORLD NEWS LISTSERVER http://www.goarch.org/worldnews To become a member, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the e-mail type: subscribe orthodoxnews ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russian church sceptical of Pope John Paul's wish to visit Moscow Moscow (ENI). Officials in the Russian Orthodox Church are playing down reports that Pope John Paul II is likely to visit Moscow. Russian prelate and Iranian ayatollah find they share an enemy Moscow (ENI). A meeting of high-ranking representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and Iran's Islamic government have found common cause in opposing what they see as the principal enemy of their own cultures - Western liberal secular society which, they claim, is trying to impose its social, political and economic values upon the whole world. Orthodox Christianity and Islam are often seen as mutually hostile, particularly in the Balkans. But the obvious enthusiasm between Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri, president of Iran's Culture and Islamic Relations Organisation, and Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, head of the external relations division of the Russian Orthodox Church's Moscow Patriarchate, when they embraced each other at the end of a four-day theological dialogue, proves otherwise. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the e-mail type: unsubscribe orthodoxnews Orthodox World News Archives online at: http://www.goarch.org/worldnews ------------------------------------------------------------------ A<>E<>R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om