THE EDICT OF MILAN — 1700 YEARS LATER A Seminar on Religious Freedom, organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in collaboration with the Council of European Episcopal Conferences, was held in Istanbul Turkey on May 17-18, 2013. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officially opened the seminar and delivered the keynote address, while His Holiness Pope Francis…
Catherine Tsounis 14/2/13 “The Armenians are our brothers,” said Mr. Constantine Parthenis my Modern Greek instructor at St. Demetrios Greek American School in 1950’s Astoria, New York. Dr. Emory, a medieval historian at Queens College, explained in a 1969 undergraduate class that “the Armenians are not recognized significantly in the Byzantine Empire.” Throughout the years…
On 10 February 2013, the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, the Gospel fragment on the “Multiplication of the bags of gold” was read in all churches. Thus, the Evangelical pericope of Matthew 25:14-30 presents us a man who was about to go on a journey, and called his servants and put them in charge of his…