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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS ACCREDITED TO THE HOLY SEE FOR THE TRADITIONAL EXCHANGE OF NEW YEAR GREETINGS
Regia Hall / Thursday, 9 January 2020 Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, A new year is opening before us; like the cry of a newborn baby, it fills us with joy and hope. I would like that word, “hope”, which is an essential virtue for Christians, to inspire our...
2019 Annual Report International Religions Freedom
UNITED STATES COMMISSION of the US Department https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2019USCIRFAnnualReport.pdf
Declaration of Principles for the International Religious Freedom Alliance
The Alliance is a network of likeminded countries fully committed to advancing freedom of religion or belief around the world. The Alliance is predicated on the idea more must be done to protect members of religious minority groups and combat discrimination and...
Secretary Pompeo Travels to Greece to Deepen Our Historic Alliance
“Greece is a pillar of stability in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans and an important NATO ally. We look forward to continuing to working closely together to promote stability and prosperity in the region.” – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, July 17,...
The New York Time Magazine: ‘The Era of People Like You Is Over’: How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals
By Suzy Hansen July 24, 20119 For more than a century, one school of political science dominated the education of Turkey’s governing class — until the Erdogan regime set about destroying it. Above: Former members of the Ankara University faculty of political science,...
{DOCUMENT}on “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together”
signed by His Holiness Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahamad al-Tayyib Faith leads a believer to see in the other a brother or sister to be supported and loved. Through faith in God, who has created the universe, creatures and all human beings (equal on...
Archons make Religious Freedom Mission to Vienna, Austria, current seat of European Union Presidency
With the blessings of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Geron of America, a delegation of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, in a continuation of the Archons’ Religious Freedom Mission, visited Vienna,...
Off-Camera Press Briefing in the Pentagon Briefing Room
Acting Secretary Of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PATRICK SHANAHAN: So, I think this is technically my first month in this acting role. I think we're going to do this on the record, right? Isn't that what we want to do? STAFF: Correct....
Ecumenical Patriarch: “The Church of Constantinople always meets the demands of the times and has a vision for the future”
Addressing pilgrims from Greece and Cyprus shortly after today’s Divine Liturgy at the Phanar, His All-Holiness spoke on the occasion of today’s 70th anniversary of the enthronement of Athenagoras as Ecumenical Patriarch, about the work and the multi-dimensional...
The Guardian : Ukraine-Russia tensions reach Greece’s holy Mount Athos
n the chilly pre-dawn gloom one recent morning, Father Makarios hurried to his chapel, one of dozens of churches and cathedrals across Mount Athos, to perform morning liturgy. A two-hour marathon of biblical recitations and sonorous chanting, it would be just one of...
The New York Times : As Ukraine and Russia Battle Over Orthodoxy, Schism Looms
By Andrew Higgins Dec. 31, 2018 CHERNYTSYA, Ukraine — Ukraine is on the verge of opening the biggest schism in Christianity in centuries, as it breaks from the authority of a Moscow-based patriarch and this week expects to formally gain recognition for its own church,...
The Guardian view on the Orthodox schism: theology and low politics
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who reigns in Constantinople, has a magnificent title which corresponds to almost nothing on earth. Although he represents an unbroken tradition of almost 2,000 years of Christianity, Constantinople has been the Muslim city of...