POPE CALLS FOR HUMAN VALUES PROTECTION IN SOUTH CAUCASUS
PanARMENIAN.Net
25.04.2008 13:51 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Pope Benedict XVI called on Catholic priests in
the South Caucasus "to protect the values of family and human life
against the mentality filled into the society during communist rule."
Receiving prelates serving in Catholic parishes in Azerbaijan, Armenia
and Georgia, The Pope said that "after the USSR decline the people
living there still experience hardships."
"There are poor and homeless people, refugees," he said. "However,
despite the 20th century events, Catholicism was preserved in the
Caucasus," he added, ITAR-TASS reports.
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