In November 2012, Archbishop Niphon of Philippopolis, representative of the Patriarch of the Great Antioch and All the East to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, sent a letter to Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, in which he, with the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius IV, informed him of the Patriarch of Antioch\u2019s support for the position taken by the Russian Orthodox Church with regard to the role of traditional spiritual values in the life of society.<\/p>\n
The letter says, in particular, that the Orthodox Church of Antioch is indignant at the outrageous actions committed in some churches and monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church, that she \u201ccondemns such actions as directed against the Universal Orthodoxy and that she is grieved to note that some Western countries see such behaviour as natural\u201d within the human rights concept interpreted in a narrow sense, while in fact infringing upon the rights of other people.<\/p>\n
His Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius \u201cespecially emphasizes that he shares the position\u201d of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning human rights, the position which \u201cHis Holiness Patriarch Kirill expressed many times, saying that human rights are impossible without taking into consideration traditional spiritual values.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBearing in mind our Saviour\u2019s words, \u201cIf the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you\u201d (Jn 15:18), our See of Antioch is confident that the Holy Russian Church, led by her brilliant Primate and preacher of God\u2019s word, will withstand this one more trial and will win a great victory, for our Lord Jesus Christ said, \u201cIn the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world\u201d (Jn 16:33)\u201d.<\/p>\n
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