A working group has been created jointly by the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches to rebuild the destroyed Christian shrines in Syria. “This group is now compiling a catalog of destroyed churches, and we will help rebuild them,” Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, said on the Russia-24 TV program Church and Peace. At the same time, he stressed that, 'in addition to churches, it will be necessary to help people restore their homes, many houses there are destroyed or damaged,' and 'this will require the efforts of the state and Christian Churches.' “First of all, we should talk about large-scale projects of a humanitarian nature. First of all, it is necessary to create for people, including Christians, all conditions for them to feel safe, ”the bishop said. He also recalled that some Syrian temples were completely destroyed, and many monasteries were destroyed or looted.
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