{"id":233036,"date":"2013-09-07T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T15:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.moldova.org\/2013\/09\/07\/russian-patriarch-kirill-welcomed-with-protests-in-moldova-238731-eng\/"},"modified":"2013-09-07T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T15:08:18","slug":"russian-patriarch-kirill-welcomed-with-protests-in-moldova-238731-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/russian-patriarch-kirill-welcomed-with-protests-in-moldova-238731-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Patriarch Kirill welcomed with protests in Moldova"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

Citizens of Moldova are divided amidst high-ranking visit of the Russian Patriarch to Chisinau. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Moldova on Saturday afternoon to participate at the 200th anniversary of the Chisinau Eparchy and lead a service at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Chisinau and at Capriana Monastery.<\/p>\n

Beyond his religious visit to Moldova, the Head of the Russian Orthodox Church will meet with the political leadership of the country. He will also travel to Moldova’s separatist region of Transnistria. <\/p>\n

A group of activists welcomed the Russian Patriarch with a protest in front of the Chisinau International Airport where he landed around 2:30 PM local time. Waving Moldovan and Romanian flags, the activists were shouting: “Go home! We want in the EU not in the USSR!”, “Kirill, politician or pastor?”, “Rospotrebnadzor is warning: Kirill is a political product!”, “Kirill don’t forget, Bessarabia is not yours!”.<\/p>\n

The protesters are members of the Council for Unity, a group that seeks reunification with Romania. Other people, who are against the Patriarch’s visit, joined the group, too.<\/p>\n

However, the Russian Patriarch was welcomed with flowers and white doves just before he stepped on the ground at the airport.<\/p>\n

A large majority of people in Moldova are Christian Orthodox. Most of them follow the Russian Church, while a smaller amount of people are complying with the Romanian Orthodox Church, which marks all the holidays two weeks earlier, according to the Gregorian (New) Calendar.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>Citizens of Moldova are divided amidst high-ranking visit of the Russian Patriarch to Chisinau. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Moldova on Saturday afternoon to participate at the 200th anniversary of the Chisinau Eparchy and lead a service at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Chisinau and at Capriana Monastery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

Citizens of Moldova are divided amidst high-ranking visit of the Russian Patriarch to Chisinau. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Moldova on Saturday afternoon to participate at the 200th anniversary of the Chisinau Eparchy and lead a service at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Chisinau and at Capriana Monastery.<\/p>\n

Beyond his religious visit to Moldova, the Head of the Russian Orthodox Church will meet with the political leadership of the country. He will also travel to Moldova’s separatist region of Transnistria. <\/p>\n

A group of activists welcomed the Russian Patriarch with a protest in front of the Chisinau International Airport where he landed around 2:30 PM local time. Waving Moldovan and Romanian flags, the activists were shouting: “Go home! We want in the EU not in the USSR!”, “Kirill, politician or pastor?”, “Rospotrebnadzor is warning: Kirill is a political product!”, “Kirill don’t forget, Bessarabia is not yours!”.<\/p>\n

The protesters are members of the Council for Unity, a group that seeks reunification with Romania. Other people, who are against the Patriarch’s visit, joined the group, too.<\/p>\n

However, the Russian Patriarch was welcomed with flowers and white doves just before he stepped on the ground at the airport.<\/p>\n

A large majority of people in Moldova are Christian Orthodox. Most of them follow the Russian Church, while a smaller amount of people are complying with the Romanian Orthodox Church, which marks all the holidays two weeks earlier, according to the Gregorian (New) Calendar.  <\/p>\n

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