(ANSA) - GENOA, 18 FEB - "We are preparing the second meeting between Pope Francis and the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church", Kirill, "in June or July. I know that a good principle has been chosen to identify the place of the meeting: it will be a a place where people suffer, where Christians suffer ".
This was explained by the Russian ambassador to the Holy See Aleksandr Avdeev in Genoa at the fifth Italian-Russian seminary.
"I think the meeting will be very important and interesting, not only for international relations, but also for the development of relations between the two churches. - he concluded - We are the children of a Christian civilization, we have common moral and ethical values".
(HANDLE).