Police officers stand guard at the site of a train derailment near the village of Uglovka, about 400 km (249 miles) northwest of Moscow, November 28, 2009.
· Russian patriarch seeks powerful reply to train bomb
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Posted on Mon Nov 30 2009
Interfax -- Moscow, November 30, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia hopes that Russian authorities should give a strong and efficient response to the explosion of the Nevsky Express train. "Today everyone should respond to what has happened. Authorities as well as the law enforcement agencies will give their own response and we believe this response will be efficient, powerful enough to show to dishonest and awful people that Russia is a constitutional state, Russia is a peaceful state, but when an enemy raises his hand against our lives we can protect our citizens. I believe our state will respond this way," the Patriarch said .
Moscow, November 30, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia hopes that Russian authorities should give a strong and efficient response to the explosion of the Nevsky Express train.
"Today everyone should respond to what has happened. Authorities as well as the law enforcement agencies will give their own response and we believe this response will be efficient, powerful enough to show to dishonest and awful people that Russia is a constitutional state, Russia is a peaceful state, but when an enemy raises his hand against our lives we can protect our citizens. I believe our state will respond this way," the Patriarch said on Sunday in Christ the Savior Cathedral after the requiem liturgy for the victims of the train explosion.
According to the Church Primate "our people shouldn't get used to such events."
"Though when we watch TV reports in our flats, we don't often take a TV picture for reality as we've got used to false deaths and false sufferings offered by virtual world of television, but we should be able to understand that this is not a death in a feature film, this is death of sisters and brothers," Patriarch Kirill said and stressed that each of us could have traveled in that train.
He said that he personally knew some people killed in the Nevsky Express. Some of them had close relations with the Church and helped it. "We will always remember their holy names and will pray for those killed," Patriarch Kirill said.
According to him, tragedy on the Oktyabrskaya Railway is a "menacing sign" given by the Lord and the Church can give the only response: it should strengthen faith and moral bases of life and on this faith, we should build relations both with our neighbors and those who are far, with people of different nationalities and various confessions.
"Joy and sorrow go hand in hand in our life, as sanctity and sin also go together, and good is fighting evil. Thus, without surrendering to despair, without feeling hopeless and losing faith we should trust God's will, His great Divine power and go on living and carrying out work of God's truth in order to lead our world subjected to sin to the Divine glory," the Patriarch said in his address.
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