Tag: wild fires

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: ‘Humans have lost their original humanity’

In an address Tuesday at the University of the Peloponnese in Tripolis, Greece, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said that “a homogenization of humans and peoples is in progress” and underlined that the environmental threat points to “problematic anthropology.” He spoke of an “ecological crisis” and stressed that “the looting of the planet, the burning of the…

September 23, 2009
Wild Fires and Church Bells

From the Telegraph: Around 1,000 firefighters and soldiers were able to take advantage of a lull in strong winds that had fanned the blaze for four days to bring some of the areas under control. The high winds were expected to ease further on Tuesday, Greece’s National Weather Service said, although the risk of flare-ups…

August 24, 2009

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: ‘Humans have lost their original humanity’