” “For the first time, the Vatican and the Patriarchate of Moscow organise together a "European meeting of Christian culture" due to open in Vienna tomorrow and end on May 5th about "Giving back a soul to Europe”. The event reads a release from the Papal Council for Culture is promoted by the Department for Foreign Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow and "has been prompted by card. Paul Poupard’s visit to His Holiness Alexius II, Patriarch of Moscow, in November 2004". On that occasion, they expressed "the shared concern of Christians in Europe to face the current process of the Continent’s loss of identity, to reflect on the Christian roots of Europe and to strongly propose a plan for the future". Culture reads the release turns out to be "a common ground of dialogue among Christians of different denominations. The meeting will be jointly chaired by card. Poupard and by the metropolitan bishop Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, president of the Department for Foreign Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow. The meeting will be attended by experts from all over Europe, jointly selected by the two bodies. The moderators will be Rev. P. Bernard Ardura, Secretary of the Papal Council for Culture, and Rev. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Deputy President of the Department for Foreign Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow. ” “
