Saint Paul-Unveiled in Damascus countryside

At the Covent of Saint Paul the Messenger Revelation in Tel Cawkab in Damascus countryside, a memorial for Saint Paul was unveiled yesterday in the presence of Metropolitan,Germain Representative of his holiness Patriarch of Russia Alexy II.

Metropolitan, Mousa Khouri, Assistant Patriarch of the Roman Orthodox underlined the importance of the event and its historical and spiritual denotations.

The Russian Ambassador in Damascus, Robert Makrian underlined the historical relations between Russia and Syria and those between the Russian Church and the Church of Antioch since the arrival of Saint Paul the Messenger in Syria and his call for Christianity in the world.

He stressed Russia's supportive stance to the Arab right and the achievement of just peace in the region.

Meantime, A religious mass was held in Mary Cathedral for Rome Orthodox Sunday on the occasion of visit of Metropolitan Germain of Korsk Convent in Russia and the accompanying delegation to Syria.

Metropolitans Ghatas Hazim of the Roman Orthodox and Germain delivered a speech in which they voiced the deep-rooted historical and spiritual relations connecting Syria and Russia and Russian and Antioch churches.