Tag: ecumenical patriarchate

Earth Hour 2009

Message of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew The environmental crisis, which afflicts our entire planet, constitutes one of the major problems of humanity, together with poverty and the absence of peace.…

Journey begins towards convening of grand Pan-Orthodox Synod

From AsiaNews, 12 March 2009, by Nat Da Polis With the sending of letters of invitation to all the heads of the Orthodox Churches for the two preparatory meetings for the grand…

The Eightieth Anniversary of Cum Data Fuerit

Protopresbyter Lawrence Barriger writes in Irenikon, the ecumenical review of the Monatery of Chevetogne, February 22, 2009 This March marks the eightieth anniversary of the Promulgation of the Vatican decree titled Cum…

The Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church

The Patriarchal Cathedral of the Assyrians at Kudshanes, Turkey Fr John Salter writes: The Great Schism of 1054 was between Rome and Constantinople and latterly the other Patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and…

Mother Maria Skobtsova

The Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobstova, 1891-1945, Father Sergei Hackel. £12.99 Silent as a Stone – Mother Maria of Paris and the Trash Can Rescue, Jim Forest.£9.99p…