Re: for BM: French connection
- From: The Black Monk <ch.mon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:11:56 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 21, 7:54 am, "captain." <spammersmust...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
French connection...cut...
But in France and other parts of Europe, some Orthodox church groups refuse
to return to a union with the church leadership in Moscow. So what is at
stake in Nice is a question not only of property rights, but also of
spiritual jurisdiction. Some in the community here remain leery of Soviet
vestiges in the Russian church; others suspect that the Russian church's
drive for unity masks a goal of grasping valuable property, like the church
in Nice.
"The place of religion in the formation of the Russian identity is
essential," said Father Gueit, 62, a law professor in Aix-en-Provence when
he is not serving the parish's spiritual needs. "After the fall of the
Communist identity, they had no other choice but to revive the Orthodox
tradition."
The lawsuit in Nice reflects another in Biarritz, on the Bay of Biscay, in
2004, when the parish council of the Orthodox Church there voted to restore
unity with Moscow. But the vote was declared invalid by the courts, which
upheld a petition by a group of parishioners who pointed to irregularities
in the way the vote was held. Russians from neighboring regions, even Spain,
had been brought in to pack the parish council, they said.
Interesting. This is the exact same trick used by Yanukovich-Kuchma
in Ukraine in 2004 - bussing a bunch of their supporters around the
country to increase their vote total.
regards,
BM
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