May 27, 2014: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Meets with Israeli and Palestinian Leadership
before departing Holy Land
We were delighted that both President Peres and
President Abbas accepted the invitation of our
brother, Pope Francis, to visit the Vatican in
order to reflect on a peace initiative. We
assure you that our wholehearted prayers will
accompany them in their travels and their
deliberations.
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May 25, 2014: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
And Pope Francis Pray Together At Holy
Sepulcher
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew and His Holiness Pope Francis
celebrated a fifty-year milestone today,
continuing the legacy of their predecessors Pope
Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras.
Meeting at the Apostolic Delegation in the Old
City of Jerusalem, the worldwide heads of the
Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Churches signed
a Joint Declaration affirming their commitment
to and anticipation of full sacramental unity in
obedience to the commandment of Jesus Christ
that his “disciples may be one.”
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May 25, 2014: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
And Pope Francis Issue Joint Declaration
Our meeting, another encounter of the Bishops of
the Churches of Rome and Constantinople founded
respectively by the two Brothers the Apostles
Peter and Andrew, is a source of profound
spiritual joy for us. It presents a providential
occasion to reflect on the depth and the
authenticity of our existing bonds, themselves
the fruit of a grace-filled journey on which the
Lord has guided us since that blessed day of
fifty years ago.
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May 24, 2014: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
In Bethlehem
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 300
million Orthodox faithful worldwide, who is in
Israel to meet with Pope Francis, today visited
Bethlehem to venerate the sacred site of Christ’
s Birth and pray with its shrinking Christian
population.
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May 23, 2014: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Arrives in Israel to Meet with Pope Francis in
Jerusalem on May 25, 2014
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 300
million Orthodox Christian faithful worldwide,
arrived in Israel today in order to meet with
Pope Francis on May 25 and 26, 2014 in the Holy
City of Jerusalem.
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EWTN Network to Broadcast Live Ecumenical
Celebration of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
and Pope Francis in Jerusalem
EWTC will broadcast the Ecumenical Celebration
with Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew LIVE from the Holy Sepulcher in
English, Spanish, German and French.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Decries
Violence in Advance of Meeting with Pope Francis
in Jerusalem
We are horrified that our world still
experiences such horrific and disgraceful acts
of religious violence. Every form of violence in
the name of religion is violence against
religion itself.
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Ecumenical Patriarchate Announces Official
Delegation for Meeting with Pope Francis in
Jerusalem May 25, 2014
The Ecumenical Patriarchate today released a
list of persons accompanying Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over
300 million Orthodox faithful worldwide, on his
pilgrimage to meet Pope Francis in Jerusalem.
The trip commemorates the 1964 meeting of their
predecessors; Pope Paul VI and Patriarch
Athenagoras I.
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