“Christianity cannot be separated from the Jewish heritage, and that Western civilization is founded on Judeo-Christian values

“American values have a “God-centered, Judeo-Christian foundation,” according to which human rights come from God, not from the state

“Israel is the foundation of Judaism, and Judaism is the foundation of Christianity

“When you have a culture that is dedicated to the principles Western civilization -- which is what the South is -- Orthodoxy doesn't fit very well into that. Orthodoxy is more or less an ethnic religion. You have Russian Orthodoxy. You have Ukrainian Orthodoxy... so forth and so on. It's ethnic.

“We want to be part of the traditional Western Christian world, and this is one of the foundations of our aspiration to join the European Union