Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
(Patriarchate.org) – Prot. No. 1109 + BARTHOLOMEW By God’s Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church: Grace, mercy, and peace from the Savior Christ, born in Bethlehem Beloved brothers and sisters, children in…
Source: World Council of Churches Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, At the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches Busan, the Republic of Korea, 1 November 2013…
On the occasion of the feast of the Birth of the Mother of God (8 September 2013), His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel addresses the hierarchs, priests, monks, nuns and faithful of the Romanian Patriarchate the following appeal to prayer for peace: APPEAL TO PRAYER…
September 6, 2013 President Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC Dear Mr. President: We write to you with a heavy heart having heard the recent news of the attack on the ancient Christian city of Maaloula, Syria by the…
25/6/13 Your Graces the archpastors, all-honourable fathers, dear brothers and sisters! Syria has been suffering from ongoing hostilities for nearly two years. Tens of thousands of people have died, many of them were civilians – old people, women and children.…
PASTORAL LETTER ON THE FEAST OF OUR LORD’S RESURRECTION 2013 † NICOLAE by the mercies of God Archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas To our beloved clergy and Orthodox Christians, peace and holy joy from Christ the…
Saturday, April 27, 2013 The Honorable John Kerry United States Secretary of State Dear Secretary Kerry, We, the Members of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America, kindly bring to your attention the urgent and very…
Like most of the world, I have been paying pretty close attention to what the new Pope of Rome is doing these days. From what I have seen and from what I have read about Pope Francis they elected a…
Before the Feast of the Lord’s Resurrection the Holy Church has established a period of seven weeks of fasting. More precisely we should say that there are six weeks plus one, for the seventh is Passion Week, a time which…
From the Russian Patriarchate His Holiness Francis, the Pope Your Holiness! I congratulate you on your election to the high and responsible service to the Primate of the Roman Catholic Church. When your predecessor – Pope Benedict XVI – the…