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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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At a two-day east-west church conference in Utrecht, Netherlands, Moscow Metropolitan Nikolai recommended that the Russian Orthodox Church join the World Council of Churches, which it refused in 1948. Observers will be sent to future meetings, but full membership requires Soviet church approval. Disagreements persist with western leaders over unconditional halt to nuclear tests.
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UTRECHT, Netherlands, (AP) Moscow Metropolitan Nikolai said Saturday he would recommend the Russian Orthodox Church join the World Council of Churches.
The church refused to join the Council in 1948.
The Russian churchman's statement was issued at the end of a two-day east-west church conference here. He said the Russian Orthodox Church is expected to send observers to future meetings of the central committee of the World Council of Churches but that membership would have to be decided by church dignitaries in the Soviet Union.
Metropolitan Nikolai's statement revealed some disagreements with western church leaders over nuclear bomb tests and ways to world peace.
The Russian church leader said the Russian Orthodox Church wants nuclear tests stopped without conditions. He said that if the western church leaders want to include conditions, then there could be no agreement on this point by the Russian church.
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Utrecht, Netherlands
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Saturday
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recommendation to join world council of churches; observers to be sent to future meetings; membership decision pending soviet church approval; disagreements on nuclear tests and world peace
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Moscow Metropolitan Nikolai issued a statement at the end of a two-day east-west church conference recommending the Russian Orthodox Church join the World Council of Churches, which it had refused in 1948. The church plans to send observers to central committee meetings, with membership to be decided by Soviet dignitaries. Disagreements with western leaders include the Russian desire for unconditional stop to nuclear tests.