Also in support are Mormons, Missouri Senate Lutherans, and Greek and Russian Orthodox churches.
Georgia's long history is reflected in its ancient Georgian Orthodox churches and remote mountain villages.
The Orthodox churches are Catholic, the biggest headed by the Patriarch of Constantinople.
But he also reached out to the Eastern Orthodox Churches and spoke up for Christians persecuted in the Middle East.
He apologised to Jews for Catholic passivity during the Holocaust, prayed at a Syrian mosque and took steps to heal the rift between Catholics and adherents of the various eastern Orthodox churches.
Observers say the visit will be a chance for the pope to put behind him the first difficult leg of his trip in Kiev, where the leader of the largest of three rival Orthodox Churches snubbed him by boycotting a meeting of all Ukraine's religious groups.
The omnipresent blue of Greek churches is so memorable that there are even a few Orthodox churches in my neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, that have mimicked the form, giving me and everyone else who passes or steps inside a slight tinge of longing for the Greek islands of their memories.
Benedict began the day with a busy morning in Jerusalem's Old City, including meeting the patriarchs of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic churches.
Their Church split from the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches in 451AD because of a theological dispute over the nature of Christ but is now, on most issues, doctrinally similar to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
One of the issues is that responsibility for its administration is shared between three religious authorities -- the Greek Orthodox, Armenian and Roman Catholic churches.
Religious leaders from the Christian Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian and Protestant churches, together with Muslim and Jewish leaders, will host special prayers across the nation on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Keith Clements, secretary of the Geneva-based Conference of European Churches, which groups over 100 Protestant and Orthodox religious groups, says his members must gear up for a sometimes difficult dialogue with Muslims of all stripes, from moderates to militants.
Its senior Orthodox prelate, Archbishop Anastasios, a scholarly figure with a deep knowledge of Islam, has been raising money from western churches to help the Kosovo refugees, and will use this weekend's Orthodox Christian Easter celebrations to pray for all victims of ethnic hatred.
Shanghai's small Russian Orthodox community has also, for the first time, received permission to use one of the pre-war churches built by White Russians.
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