{"id":145766,"date":"2017-05-11T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mospat.ru\/?p=145766"},"modified":"2017-05-13T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T08:45:16","slug":"%d0%bc%d0%b8%d1%82%d1%80%d0%be%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%82-%d0%b2%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%be%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%b0%d0%bc%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d0%b8%d0%bb%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%be%d0%bd-%d0%b2%d1%81-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/2017\/05\/11\/news145766\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Vice President of the United States Michael R. Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-145766 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'>\n\t\t<div class='carousel-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t<div id='carousel-2' class='gallery-carousel'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0198.jpg\" id=\"slide_item_200\" class=\"slide fancybox\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0198.jpg&w=632&h=380&q=95\" width=\"632\" height=\"380\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0211.jpg\" id=\"slide_item_201\" class=\"slide fancybox\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0211.jpg&w=632&h=380&q=95\" width=\"632\" height=\"380\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class='thumbs-wrapper'>\n\t\t\t<div id='thumbs-2' class='gallery-thumbs'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#slide_item_200\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0198.jpg&w=150&h=100&q=95\"><\/a><a href=\"#slide_item_201\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.php?src=https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_0211.jpg&w=150&h=100&q=95\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<a id='prev-2' class='gallery-thumbs-prev' href='#'><i class='icon-angle-circled-left'><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<a id='next-2' class='gallery-thumbs-next' href='#'><i class='icon-angle-circled-right'><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><br \/>\nOn 11 May 2017, the Vice President of the Unites States Michael R. Pence met with religious leaders of different Christian confessions at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington before a plenary session of the World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians.<\/p>\n<p>In the talk with high-ranking American politician Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, expressed confidence in the necessity of forming a world anti-terrorist coalition with the United States of America and the Russian Federation as its participants to overcome terrorist threat.<\/p>\n<p>The DECR chairman underscored the impossibility of conquering terrorism by several coalitions in confrontation with one another.<\/p>\n<p>Other issues of mutual interest were also touched upon during the talk. Metropolitan Hilarion presented the Vice President of the United States with the English version of the book \u201cPatriarch Kirill in his own words\u201d which contains the thoughts of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p>After his meeting with religious leaders the Vice President of the United States addressed the participants of the Summit. He greeted them and said: \u201cI\u2019m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.\u201d He recalled his travels to the Middle East and his meetings with political and religious leaders, mentioning \u201cgenocide against people of Christian faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael R. Pence brought greeting to the participants in the Summit from the President of the United States and said: \u201cProtecting and promoting religious freedom is a foreign policy priority of the Trump Administration.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 May 2017, the Vice President of the Unites States Michael R. 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