Moscow, June 5, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expressed hope that the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society will continue efforts in returning the Russian property in the Middle East, as well as humanitarian projects in the region.
“I am confident that the Society needs to continue its work in returning Russia’s lost historical property, which our predecessors had gathered by working hard, and especially the part of immovable property that used to belong to the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society,” the patriarch said at a meeting on the occasion of the society’s 135th anniversary, speaking of successful experience of the St. Sergius Court’s restitution
Source: Interfax-religion | 05 June 2017