Russian Culture and Business Center to Open in Bethlehem in 2012
The Russian Culture and Business
Center will be built in Bethlehem in 2012, when the Imperial Orthodox
Palestine Society will celebrate its 130 anniversary, the Society head and Chairman of Russia's Audit Chamber Sergey Stepashin said, Interfax-Religion reports. Sergei Stepashin is leading a Russian delegation to Jericho to the celebrations of the city's 10,000th anniversary.
Speaking
at the festival ceremony attended by leaders of the Palestinian
National Administration and representatives of foreign countries
Stepashin congratulated Palestinians on the great jubilee, that,
according to him, should be considered a triumph of the whole world
civilization.
«Duty of people all around the world is to preserve the holy history, colossal spiritual heritage of the Holy Land,» Stepashin said.
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