Russian Patriarch Kirill will arrive in Astana for the 4th assembly of world and traditional religions, RIA Novosti reports.
The patriarch was invited by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, deputy head of the patriarch’s press service deacon Alexander Volkov said.
Kirill will visit the Astana Cathedral on May 29 and bless new buildings of the Kazakh metropolitan. He will attend the meeting of religious representatives at the Palace of Peace and Consent in Astana on May 30.
Kazakhstan is hosting the fourth assembly of world and traditional religions. It will be held on May 30-31 this year. The first such meeting was organized in 2003. Representatives of Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Daoism and Shintoism will arrive. The patriarch is attending it for the second time. His first attendance was in 2010.
