"Accompanied by common prayer, the session proceeded in an atmosphere of fraternal love. The debaters were outspoken, and the entire gathering appeared sincerely eager to overcome the differences," said our informants.
The negotiators keep debate content secret, as was the case for the three previous conferences. The latest session went on drafting papers that reflected common stances on many issues. That was the only fact Novosti was offered.
The matters under debate pertained to the 20th century tragedy of the Russian Church, to Church-State relations, and the RCOR canonical status as an autocephaly of the Russian Local Orthodox Church.
The Russian Church split in the 1920s as a part of it put up with the Soviet regime after the Bolshevik revolution and the Civil War.
