Sochi Olympics 2014 urged to show the world Russia’s face – Patriarch Kirill

Moscow, December 9, Interfax – Russia can show its spiritual strength, culture and national face at Sochi Olympics 2014, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes.

“It (Olympic Games – IF) is a great and important event. It will not only contribute in sport developing, attracting investments, developing infrastructure and so on as people usually say, but I’d like to say one more thing. Olympic Games are a chance to show the world the face of our nation,” the Patriarch said at a reception given by the Krasnodar District governor Alexander Tkachev in Krasnodar.

According to the Primate, Chinese used the Olympics “brilliantly” in this sense.

The Russian Church official website says Patriarch Kirill urged “to show Russia’s face, our national face, our originality, our spiritual strength and culture” during the Olympics “so that people who has known nothing about our country except matryoshkas, black caviar and vodka, had no associations with Russia, suddenly say: it’s a great country, they’re great people, it’s a colossal moral tradition, it’s a great spiritual power.”

Patriarch Kirill hopes that under Tkachev’s guidance “much will be done” in this direction and stressed that “without Kuban’s potential it is impossible to imagine Russia at Sochi Olympics.”

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    Jerusalem, 10 December 2010

    His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

    The Bible declares, “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:14).
    Paul and the other apostles gave their lives for the cause of Christ. In fact, there are few more stirring witnesses of our great cause than we find in Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church:
    I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. (1 Corinthians 2:1–5). We have no greater cause than to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified and to go to the nations to testify of God’s life-saving and miracle-working power.Together we can help make that a reality !
    Together we can stand in the gap and point precious souls to eternal salvation through the blood of our Lord Jesus.
    I hope to get the opportunity to meet you with the will of God.
    I will pray for you and i bless you in the blood of Jesus Christ .

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    digpig 11 years

    Don’t strain Your Holy Self, Gundyaev, no-one is going to be taken in by this $50bn propaganda fest.

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