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Vice President Biden Visits Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul

On December 3rd Vice President Biden met with His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Greek Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul. Following their meeting, the Vice President and the Ecumenical Patriach were joined by members of the Holy Synod, Metropolitans, and Greek community leaders for continued discussions – not to mention an abundance of the [...]

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Meets with U.S. Congressmen

“We don’t believe in the clash of civilizations”, stressed the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during his meeting with two members of the U.S. Congress at the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Congressmen Steve King from Iowa and Wally Herger from California, accompanied by the Consul General of the US Embassy in Istanbul Mr. Scott Kilner, their assistant [...]

Churches in Albania Desecrated

The same group of people who over the past two years have broken into and desecrated monasteries and churches in Giannena seem to have now broken into in churches in the Southern Albania. The teary-eyed churchgoers of the Assumption Church in Sopiki at the region Pogoni of Argyrokastro listened to an announcement by the priest [...]