On May 17th, the Georgian Orthodox Church celebrated the day of the “purity of the family and the respect of the parents” with meetings across Georgia, also in the capital of the capital. The celebration started in the Kashveti church in the Rustaveli Avenue and continued in a procession of the Holy Trinity Church, the city's main cathedral.
Important figures from the ruling Georgian Dream Party, including Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and parliamentary spokesman Shalva Papuashvili and the mayor Kakha Kaladze, the mayor of the mayor, competed in the march and supported the government. In the meantime, on May 15, the government officially declared the day for the national holiday and an official day in 2024.
Gathered on May 17th, 2013 attacked by members of a violent mob, including spiritual. The following year, Patriarch Ilia II of the Georgian Orthodox Church on May 17 as a family Purity Day, which Georgia has been marking for 10 years for 10 years.
This time the Metropolitan Shio Mujiri, the Locum Tenens of the Georgian Patriarch, addressed the crowd on the Rusttaveli Avenue. Among other things, he reacted to the ongoing developments around the draft law from foreign agents and said: “We have great sadness of the controversy, the tension that has arisen and which was and is associated with the acceptance of the“ Transparency Act ”of our Parliament. There are members of the church among the supporters and opponents of this law, there are our spiritual children, including many young people. That is why we are particularly sad about all of this and we often think about how we can overcome this confrontation in our country, “he said, adding that” only love can create a wonderful atmosphere of consent and unanimity among people “.
Thousands of citizens have continuously protested the law on foreign agents that have already been adopted. Today, however, no protests are planned to avoid possible clashes.
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