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Moscow Urges Riga to Refrain From Interfering in Church Relations – Foreign Ministry

Moscow Urges Riga to Refrain From Interfering in Church Relations – Foreign Ministry

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Moscow calls on Riga not to interfere in church relations amid reports that the Latvian government has sent a letter to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia demanding to declare the Latvian Orthodox Church autocephalous, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large Gennady Askaldovich said on Friday.

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