Tag: environment

Ecological destruction is ‘sacrilegious’ says Ecumenical Patriarch

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I, leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians as their spiritual leader, has called the destruction of the environment a “sacrilegious and sinful” act. “The ecological crisis, and particularly the…

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.…