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“2017 – Islamic Solidarity Year: Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue” (Baku, December 21, 2017)

Winter 2018 Message of His All-Holiness Bartholomew Delivered by His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France On behalf of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, we would like to congratulate you on the occasion of the International Conference entitled: “2017 – Islamic Solidarity Year: Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue”. We would especially like to thank His Excellency, Mr. Ilham Aliyev,…

The Nativity of Christ

Light of Light, Brightness of the Father, You have made the whole creation shine with joy! December 25, 2017 (Hymn of Vespers of the Feast) To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the Distinguished Archons…

The Mystery of the Virgin Womb as the Tabernacle of God in the Flesh

By John G. Panagiotou Winter 2018 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Emmanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14) The great prophet of God Isaiah prophesied this proclamation of the salvation of God’s creation some eight centuries before the birth of Jesus…

A Review of Bonnie Thurston’s All the Fullness of God: The Christ of Colossians

by John G. Panagiotou John G. Panagiotou John Panagiotou – OCP News Service – 11/3/18 Buy a Copy on Amazon In Biblical scholar Bonnie Thurston’s latest offering to the study of the Scriptures All the Fullness of God: The Christ of Colossians, we are given a wonderful analysis of the theology of the Apostle Paul…

A Review of John McKinney’s Hiking the Holy Mountain: Tales of Monks and Miracles on the Trails of Mount Athos

By John G. Panagiotou 10 April 2018 Sometimes a book defies categorization or description for that matter. John McKinney’s Hiking the Holy Mountain: Tales of Monks and Miracles on the Trails of Mount Athos, Greece does those things and more. At first glance, one would think that this yet another mundane (and even boring) hiking…

“A Common Christian Agenda for the Common Good”

ADDRESS BY HIS ALL-HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BATHOLOMEW (Vatican, May 26, 2018) Spring 2018 Your Eminence Cardinal Parolin, Your Eminences, Excellencies, Reverend Fathers, and Distinguished audience, We would like to express our wholehearted gratitude and appreciation to the President of the “Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation” for extending to us a kind invitation on the occasion…

The Quest for Orthodox–Assyrian Alliance

Spring 2018 George Alexander – OCP News Service- (Dept. of Church Research and Studies – Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE) – 26/1/18 Introduction To be frank, any kind of Orthodox – Assyrian Church alliance seems to be a distant dream. However, it is always good to keep our hopes high and keep praying for the distant dream….

Patriarchal Proclamation of Christmas 2017

Prot. No. 1123 PATRIARCHAL PROCLAMATION FOR CHRISTMAS 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 in Christ, dear children, By the grace of God, we are once again deemed worthy to…

JERUSALEM IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

Winter 2018 Ecumenical Patriarchate-IJCIC: Celebrating 40 Years of Dialogue (Jerusalem, December 5, 2017) Address By His All-Holiness Bartholomew Your Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem, Eminences, Excellencies, Distinguished participants, Dear friends, It is an honor to address this historic conference in which we celebrate forty years of dialogue between Orthodoxy and Judaism. We congratulate His Eminence…

2017 – Islamic Solidarity Year: Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue

Winter 2018 (Baku, December 21, 2017) Message of His All-Holiness Bartholomew Delivered by His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France On behalf of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, we would like to congratulate you on the occasion of the International Conference entitled: “2017 – Islamic Solidarity Year: Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue”. We would especially like to thank His…

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