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In this letter to H.H. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia on 19 April 2022, World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca urged Patriarch Kirill to “intervene and ask publicly for a ceasefire for at least few hours during the Resurrection service.”

In a 10 March letter, H.H. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia responded to a letter sent 2 March by World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca asking Patriarch Kirill to mediate so that the war can be stopped.

By WCC acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca.

Greetings to the World Council of Churches from Patriarch Kirill on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the WCC

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit welcomes the meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill in Cuba as an historic ecumenical event, and very timely in the context of the conflicts and crises currently causing so much suffering in the world.

The WCC general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, and interim general secretary of CEC, Rev. Prof. Dr Viorel Ionita, expressed shock and sadness in a letter of condolence to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia concerning the bombing at the Domodedovo Airport on 24 January 2011.

Condolence letter by WCC general secretary Olav Fykse Tveit to the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kyrill following the terrorist attacks in Moscow on 29 March 2010.