Moscow(AsiaNews/Agencies) – The Conference of Catholic Bishops of Russia (CCBR) yesterday launched its official website - www.ruscatholic.ru. It presents activities of the Conference and of the representative of the Holy See inRussia, as well as information about dioceses and educational institutions of the Catholic Church.
Official documents will be published in the future and a section already exists forVaticandocuments and theological treatises. The CCBR General Secretary, Fr Igor Kovalevsky, has been appointed as editor-in-chief of the website.
The Archbishop of Moscow, Mgr Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, welcomed the new information tool, describing it as “dream that has come true at last”. The archbishop said: “I hope that this good undertaking will bring abundant fruits, affirming moral values in the face of the challenges of liberal secularism, moral relativism and religious ignorance.”
Mgr Kondrusiewicz continued: “The new site will serve to better relations with other confessions and religions, including the Russian Orthodox Church first and foremost.”
