{"id":129036,"date":"2016-03-02T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=129036"},"modified":"2016-03-02T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:00:26","slug":"%d0%bc%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b8%d1%81%d1%82%d1%80-%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%81%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%bd%d1%8b%d1%85-%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%bb-%d1%80%d0%be%d1%81%d1%81%d0%b8%d0%b8-%d0%be%d0%b1%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2016\/03\/02\/news129036\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs draws United Nations\u2019 attention to the statement of Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis on the defense of Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed concern for the fate of Christians in the Middle East in his address delivered at a high-profile event during the 31<sup>st<\/sup> session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on March 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He drew attention of the audience to the joint statement recently signed by the heads of the Russian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Churches and underscored that it contained a call on the international community to act immediately in order to stop the mass exodus of Christians from the Middle East countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect that this call will receive a practical response, particularly in the activities of the UNHRC. We will work towards this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Lavrov also mentioned a high-level event on issues of protecting the rights of Christians held in Geneva on 2 March 2015 attending which were Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Lebanon and Syria. Archimandrite Philaret (Bulekov), vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, delivered a report at the conference.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed concern for the fate of Christians in the Middle East in his address delivered at a high-profile event during the 31st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on March 1, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":129037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}