Press conference on the World Religious Summit to take place on June 22

Press conference on the upcoming World Religious Summit (Moscow, 3-5 July 2006) will take place in RIA Novosti pres centre at 10.00 a.m. on Friday, June 22

Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, other members of the Interreligious Council of Russia and their representatives will participate in the press conference.

Accreditation of journalists by phone 201-5019.

• WORLD SUMMIT OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS July 3 – 5, 2006, Moscow
• Metropolitan Kirill meets with the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity Cardinal Walter Kasper
• Metropolitan Kirill meets with WCC General Secretary Rev. Samuel Kobia
• His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II meets with Cardinal Roger Etchegaray
• His Holiness Patriarch Alexy meets with Supreme Patriarch and Catholics of All Armenians Karekin II
• Состоялась встреча Святейшего Патриарха Алексия с Верховным муфтием Сирии доктором Ахмадом Бадр Аль-Дином Хассуном
• World Summit of Religious Leaders to open on July 3 in Moscow
• Forthcoming World Religious Summit: Members of the Interreligious Council of Russia answer questions of the media
• Press conference on the World Religious Summit to take place on June 22