Roman Catholic Archbishop Visits the Lutheran Cathedral in Moscow for the First Time

Moscow, Russia
  On May 24th Roman Catholic Archbishop Pavel Pezzi  visited St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral in Moscow. There the head of the Diocese of the Mother of God in Moscow met with the Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia Dietrich Brauer.
«Our friendship here between the Lutheran Church and the Catholic Church in Moscow is based on our common martyrdom which, based on our common suffering which reached its pinnacle in the 20th century,” said Archbishop Pezzi. “I hope that our relationship with develop in this spirit of mutual love and and that we can cooperate more with time.”  
  The meeting of the two Archbishops was dedicated to the further development of cooperation in the light of the upcoming 500th Anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.
"The Church of Christ has many barriers on its path of development, but all of this is human. Everything will be overcome if we place our hope in the One for Whom everything is possible, trust Him and pray to Him,” Archbishop Dietrich Brauer emphasized, “and today I am very happy that we pray together.”