SINGAPORE, November 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
The management of PhosAgro Group took part in the rite of
consecration of the foundation stone of a Russian Orthodox church
and a Russian cultural centre in Singapore.
The ceremony to mark the laying of the foundation stone of a
Russian cultural centre and the Church of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin, which was included as part of the programme for the
visit of Russia's head of state to
Singapore and timed to coincide
with the Russia-ASEAN summit and the Eastern European Partnership
summit, was opened by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the President of the Republic
of Singapore, Halimah Yacob.
According to President Putin, "Singapore is an important and promising
partner for Russia in the
Asia-Pacific region. The relations
that have developed between us are truly based on mutual respect
and trust. This was also confirmed by today's ceremony to lay the
foundation stone for the first Russian cultural centre and Orthodox
church here in Singapore. I am
confident that this gesture and the subsequent construction of this
centre will serve as a good basis for the development of bilateral
relations, especially at the level of the people who will come here
to Singapore, more and more, who
will learn about your country and who will have the opportunity to
visit the Russian Orthodox Church and our cultural centre. And the
citizens of Singapore will have an
opportunity to learn about the culture of the Russian Federation."
The rite of consecration was led by the administrator of the
Moscow Patriarchate parishes in East and South-East Asia, Archbishop Sergiy of
Solnechnogorsk, Vicar of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
With the blessing of His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of
Moscow and All Russia, PhosAgro
and the Guryev family, benefactors of the Orthodox Church, will
take responsibility for the adornment of the first Orthodox church
in Singapore.
"We have provided comprehensive support to the Russian Orthodox
Church for building and restoring churches in Russia and abroad. This is a great honour for
our family and for PhosAgro," said PhosAgro CEO Andrey A. Guryev following the rite of
consecration, which was led by Archbishop Sergiy of
Solnechnogorsk.
PhosAgro Group opened its first foreign trading company,
PhosAgro Asia, in Singapore
exactly five years ago. Since its very first day of operations, it
has been assisting the Parish of the Assumption of the Mother of
God in Singapore.
In addition to the ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the
Russian cultural centre, where the first Orthodox church in
Singapore will also be built, the
leadership of PhosAgro Group took part in a state reception on
behalf of President of Singapore Halimah
Yakob in honour of Russian President Vladimir Putin. A production meeting was held at
the PhosAgro Asia office, where it was noted that, over the past
five years, PhosAgro Group has increased its annual supply of
products to the countries of South-East
Asia by more than 60% to 600,000 tonnes and that it intends
to strengthen its presence in the promising Asian market.
Discussions were also held with several of PhosAgro Group's
business partners.
PhosAgro supports Russian cultural and spiritual sites on a
regional, federal and international basis. In Russia, the Company assists with the
restoration and construction of Orthodox churches, the revival of
Sunday schools and the strengthening of spiritual education. In
particular, Company employees have supported the building of the
temple complex and Cathedral of the Venerable Athanasius and
Theodosius of Cherepovets (Cherepovets, Vologda region) and the
Church of the Miraculous Image of the Lord Jesus Christ the Saviour (Kirovsk, Murmansk
region), the renovation of the Holy Trinity Temple (Balakovo,
Saratov region), the establishment of a Sunday school at the Temple
of the Venerable Athanasius and Theodosius of Cherepovets and the
restoration of a Sunday school at the Church of the Holy Prophet
Elijah (Abakanovo, Vologda region).
PhosAgro has also been reviving the tradition of building
factory churches. Five churches have already been built and
consecrated at the Company's enterprises and holiday resorts for
Company employees in Cherepovets, Balakovo and Kirovsk. The
construction of five more churches has begun in Moscow, Volkhov, Cherepovets and at the
Company's processing plant and mine in the Murmansk region.
In Moscow, on the grounds of
PhosAgro's headquarters, the Company, with the blessing of His
Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, is building a chapel in
honour of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in
Lycia. The memorial chapel marks a historic event: in 2017, part of
the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker were brought to
Russia from the Italian city of
Bari.
Thanks to the efforts of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill in 2017,
it was made possible to transfer part of the relics of St. Nicholas
the Wonderworker to Russia from
the Italian city of Bari. The relics of St. Nicholas the
Wonderworker had not left Bari since being brought to the city 930
years earlier. Thanks to agreements reached with the Roman Catholic
Church, 2.5 million believers from Russia and other countries were able to bow
before the holy relics. For two months, the relics were displayed
at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery
in St. Petersburg. PhosAgro and
the Guryev family played a significant role in this unique event in
modern history.
With the blessing of His Holiness Kirill, PhosAgro has been
organising pilgrimages to the relics of St. Nicholas the
Wonderworker for believers from Russia twice a year for more than seven
years.
PhosAgro's management has received a number of awards from the
Russian Orthodox Church for their charitable work.
About the Company
PhosAgro is one of the world's leading vertically integrated
phosphate-based fertilizer producers in terms of production volumes
of phosphate-based fertilizers and high-grade phosphate rock with a
P2O5 content of 39% and higher.
The Company is the largest phosphate-based fertilizer producer
in Europe (by total combined
capacity for DAP/MAP/NP/NPK/NPS), the largest producer of
high-grade phosphate rock with a P2O5 content
of 39%, a top-three producer of MAP/DAP globally, one of the
leading producers of feed phosphates (MCP) in Europe, and the only producer in Russia, and Russia's only producer of nepheline
concentrate (according to the RAFP).
PhosAgro's main products include phosphate rock, 39 grades of
fertilizers, feed phosphates, ammonia, and sodium tripolyphosphate,
which are used by customers in 100 countries spanning all of the
world's inhabited continents. The Company's priority markets
outside of Russia and the CIS are
Latin America, Europe and Asia.
PhosAgro's shares are traded on the Moscow Exchange, and Global
Depositary Receipts (GDRs) for shares trade on the London Stock
Exchange (under the ticker PHOR). Since 1
June 2016, the Company's GDRs have been included in the MSCI
Russia and MSCI Emerging Markets indexes.
More information about PhosAgro can be found on the website:
http://www.phosagro.ru.
SOURCE PhosAgro