Tag: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
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Quiet Flows the Mississippi into the Matrix of Mystery
So I’m reading an article in the Wall Street Journal this morning about the Religious Left mounting an “aggressive” ad campaign on environmental issues and come across these lines: The ads, funded by a left-leaning coalition, urge support for congressional legislation to curb greenhouse-gas emissions — by framing the issue as an urgent matter of…
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Benedict to Bartholomew: Called to ‘One Hope’
The Zenit news agency published the translation of Pope Benedict XVI’s address to the delegation the Ecumenical Patriarchate sent to the Vatican for the celebration of “the solemnity” of Sts. Peter and Paul and the conclusion of the Pauline Year. The patriarchate’s delegation was led by Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, director of the Office of…
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Ecumenical Patriarch releases agenda for Mississippi Symposium
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese released the schedule for Ecumenical Patriarch Batholomew’s visit to the United States in October. Separately, a detailed agenda for his upcoming environmental symposium has been posted online. The patriarch’s “Symposium VIII — Restoring Balance: The Great Mississippi River” offers a rare opportunity to present Orthodoxy’s distinctive, sacramental understanding of the stewardship…
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Patriarch Bartholomew on World Environment Day
Message from His All Holiness (June 5, 2009). The patriarch’s full text follows: Today’s World Environment Day is an opportunity as well as an invitation for all of us, irrespective of religious background, to consider the ecological crisis. In our time, more than ever before, there is an undeniable obligation for all to understand that…
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Ecumenical Patriarch Decries Turkish Property Seizures
AsiaNews is reporting that Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I has “announced his intention to appeal to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg over violations against the Orthodox community and its foundations, unjustly expropriated of lands and buildings by Ankara’s Direction for Religious Foundations.” Speaking to faithful in St Georges’ Parish, close to the Byzantine…