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In solidarity with Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis, the Chaldean Patriarchate urged all its Churches to pray on Sunday Mass of December 1, 2019 for the souls of martyrs of demonstrators and security forces, who offered their life in Nasiriyah, Najaf, Baghdad and other cities, and also for the speedy recovery of the wounded.

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I have been privileged to represent the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, Vatican City, at the 2nd Baku Summit of World Religious Leaders, you called on in Baku on November 14 and 15, 2019.  You also gave your patronage and support to this particular event, participating along with the First Lady, H.E. Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva, and your daughter Leyla Aliyeva, in the Opening ceremony. You were kind enough as well to invite the participants in the Summit to an Official dinner, and to be present at it along with your wife and daughter.

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will concelebrate the Divine Liturgy with Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria at the Phanar, one day before the Feast of Saint Andrew, which is also the Thronal Feast of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

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Three masked men broke into the house of Bartholomew I of Constantinople, when he was away at a meeting with his Greek compatriots. The news was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Anatoli newspaper.

The statue of “Christ the Redeemer,” towering over the picturesque mountain of Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is probably the most iconic representation of Jesus in the world. But when it comes to actual size, Cristo Redentor actually ranks in second place. According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the tallest statue of Jesus is in Świebodzin, Poland.

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“Peace between religions is a fundamental prerequisite for peace between peoples and cultures,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew points out in his recorded message to the International Conference on “Religion in the Modern World: Challenges and Prospects for Dialogue and Peace”, which is co-organized by “Foreign Affairs The Hellenic Edition” magazine and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

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After the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, who first commemorated with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew the name of the new Metropolitan of Kyiv, follows Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria who commemorated Metropolitan Epifaniy, thus recognizing the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

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Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, told the KP daily how he was received in Washington, how the church situation has changed under Zelensky and whether Russia needs building ‘three churches a day’. ---   Under Zelensky the faithful have been able to sigh with relief

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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, EU Bishops call upon all Europeans to work together towards a free and united Europe “through a renewed process of dialogue […] for a common peaceful future”. COMECE Vice-President H.E. Mgr. Overbeck (Germany): “it is a call on the European people to cooperate in solidarity”.

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Moscow, November 6, Interfax - The United States had a hand in the granting of autocephaly to the new church of Ukraine and is seeking to split the Orthodox world even more, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. --  "I didn't hear that the Church of Greece officially recognized the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine. I've heard that there is a letter by Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece addressed to the leader of the schismatics, but I didn't see an official statement by the Church of Greece," Lavrov said at a press conference following negotiations with the foreign minister of Greece in Moscow on Wednesday.

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The Consul General of China in Istanbul made an official visit to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Wednesday. --  Cui Wei is the first Chinese official to visit the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and was briefed by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch on the activities of the Greek Orthodox metropolitan diocese of Hong Kong on spiritual and religious activities, including the latest news on the Orthodox Christians who live there.
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BOSTON – His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is expected to visit the United States in May of 2020, invited by the U.S. government and more specifically by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in order to speak at a conference about the protection of the Natural Environment.

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(Budapest, Hungary) Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday at a meeting with heads of Christian churches in the Middle East Russia was worried about a mass exodus of Christians from the Middle East and their plight in that region.

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October 30, 2019 – the Christian Inter-Confessional Consultative Committee is holding its 6th Plenary Session at the conference hall of President Hotel in Moscow under the theme ‘The Eternal Power of the Gospel and Its Significance for the Modern Society’. Among the attendees are representatives of Christian confessions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
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BERUIT - Lebanon’s Maronite bishops, commending the unity of the Lebanese people amid a peaceful mass uprising demanding a new government, called for a “constructive spirit” following the resignation of the country’s prime minister. -  “The Lord is leading the ship of the homeland and we hope that this step will be the beginning of the solution,” Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, said in response to the resignation of Saad Hariri.

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