Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia congratulated Bronislaw Komorowski on his election as President of Poland, the Interfax-Religion website reports today (July 9, 2010).
The Primate said that the recent presidential elections in Poland are connected with the Smolensk tragedy when Polish elite -- headed by President Lech Kachinski -- were killed in the air crash. The Russian Orthodox Church with its flock mourned and sympathized with the Polish people, Patriarch Kirill wrote.
According to the Patriarch, Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Poland have much in common -- "shared Christian and Slavic roots and also shared pain for the tragedies of Katyn, Mednoye, and other places where innocent blood of sons and daughters of our nations was shed."
"Today the Russian Orthodox Church jointly with the Roman Catholic Church in Poland work to strengthen relations between Russian and Polish people," Patriarch Kirill wrote.
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