CNN`s I-List Georgia covers story of Georgian Patriarch

2010.04.22

The next footage on Georgia was broadcast on CNN international with the live stand up of the reporter Jim Clancy from Tbilisi. The yesterday`s report in I-list Georgia was dedicated to the brief biography of the Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II and the role of His Holiness in the history of Georgia, including political development.

The narrator says that during 30 years Ilia II has been leading one of the ancient Orthodox Churches of world, the Church of Georgia, which has passed heroic economic and political transformation; during the conflicts Patriarch plays becomes the source of stability and the figure which unifies the nation; according to the surveys, Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia is the person, whom the nation trusts most of all.

The reporter also says that the preaching of His Holiness sometimes touches the political developments and that it was the achievement of the Patriarch`s activities that the opposition ceased large-scale protests and the hunger strikes in the capital.

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