His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent a message of greetings to the participants in the 25^th annual Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, which takes place in the capital of Greece on June 25-30, 2018. Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of

the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, read it out at the session held at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens. The text is given below.

Dear participants and guests of the Assembly:

I wholeheartedly greet all of you who have gathered in Athens today to take part in the 25^th annual Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy.

Uniting parliamentarians from countries of the Orthodox tradition for a quarter of the century, The Assembly has become an important place for discussing various topical issues and for bringing witness about the Orthodox point of view on many challenges of modern times. People who have vested you with trust hope that you will contribute to the affirmation of Christian spiritual and moral values in the life of society and to the consolidation of pan-Orthodox unity.

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