The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia has applauded a decision by the Moscow Patriarchate Holy Synod to drop inter-church lawsuits.
"We welcome this decision and think that it is absolutely correct. Being brethren in religion and blood, we must resolve problems in the spirit of love, not in courts," Synod Treasurer of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia Archpriest Pyotr Kholodny told Interfax on Monday.
He said the Synod would discuss rapprochement with the Russian Orthodox Church in September.
In the past, the churches have disputed property ownership. There have been also lawsuits in Ottawa, where the flock of the Pokrov Church volunteered subordination to the Russian Orthodox Church, and Dresden, where the law transferring Russian Orthodox temples to the Orthodox Church Outside Russia is still in effect. That law was adopted in Nazi Germany in 1938.