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Photo: Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I embrace.
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CWN - Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew II of Constantinople will join Pope Francis during his visit to Egypt later this month.
Sheikh Ahmed Muhammad el Tayyib, the head of Al Azhar University, extended an invitation to the Ecumenical Patriarch to attend the International Conference for Peace, which Pope Francis is already scheduled to address.
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros will also attend the event, bringing together the world’s most prominent Christian leaders with the most prominent figure in Egypt’s Christian minority. The conference, sponsored by Al Azhar, will be held April 28 and 29.
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CWN - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches, said in his Easter message that “the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus is the main content of the Christian message to the world.”
“Our unity with the Lord cannot be limited to merely participation in worship or to our personal efforts in prayer,” he wrote. “We cannot abide in carefree idleness knowing that around us are people who have yet to discover the joy of life in God, people who are suffering, the afflicted, the lonely, the downcast or in pain by way of illness.”
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CWN - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow received Italian President Sergio Mattarella on April 12 and said that “the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church can and should do everything to make the world a more peaceful place.”
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church said that Catholics and Orthodox should work “to decrease the level of confrontation between East and West so that we again feel ourselves belonging to one cultural environment, which we call Europe.”
“I think our shared convictions—Pope Francis’ and mine—are that today religious factor should contribute to reconciliation of people in the European continent and spiritual union among them,” Patriarch Kirill added, according to an Interfax report.
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TO OUR CLERGY, HIEROMONKS AND BROTHERS, RELIGIOUS SISTERS, SEMINARIANS AND BELOVED FAITHFUL
Xpuctoc Bockpec! Christ is Risen!
We joyfully sing, “Christ is Risen from the dead, trampling death by death, and to those in the tombs giving life”. Our joyful proclamation fills us with hope!
Grasp in awe the significance of the words spoken by the angel to the myrrh-bearing women who went to the tomb early on Easter morning to anoint Jesus’ body: “Why look for the living among the dead? You won’t find Him here. He is Risen!” (Lk 24:5-6). Love is the victor. Death is not the end. The end is life, His life and our lives through Him, in Him. Our existence has depths of beauty, mystery, and blessings more than the wildest visionary had ever dared to dream. Christ our Lord has Risen!
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ugcc.ua - On Sunday, another terrible attack was perpetrated against the Coptic community in Egypt. The Day of Christ’s entry in Jerusalem became the day of passion for the faithful in Alexandria and Tanta. At this time of sorrow, I assure you of solidarity in prayer of our Church,” says the Head of the UGCC in a letter to the Head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, Theodore II, the Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Apostle Mark’s capital.
“Our hearts embrace the wounded, the bereaved families, priests and laity of the Coptic Church in Egypt and abroad. Let the blood of innocently killed become the seed of faith in this week, leading us to the Resurrection. May our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, “who rose from the dead, trampling down death by death, and on those in the tombs bestowing life,” illuminate with the everlasting light the victims, give peace to the Church, shelter Your Holiness, your brothers in the episcopate, the priests, consecrated persons and all the faithful and enlighten our hearts with his hope and charity,” His Beatitude Sviatoslav said. It was reported by Information Department of the UGCС.
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CWN - In a joint Easter message, the Christian leaders of Jerusalem have proclaimed that “pain, suffering, and death do not have the final word, it is God—who has the first word and the last.”
The patriarchs and other leaders of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant groups in Jerusalem said: “The Resurrection inspires the resolute steadfastness in the living stones (local Christians) as living witnesses in the Holy Land.”
In their statement the Christian leaders recalled the ecumenical ceremony that marked the re-opening of the Edicule—the shrine at the site of Christ’s tomb, inside the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre—after extensive renovations. “The completion of this challenging work,” they said, was a testimony to ecumenical cooperation as well as to the support received from all around the world. Huge amount of porn rips ready to download - 1600+ siterips of porn sites.
The Easter message was signed by:
- Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theopilos II
- Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Patriarch Nourhan Manougian
- Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzabella, apostolic administrator of the Latin-rite Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem
- Father Francesco Patton, the Franciscan Custos of the Holy Land
- Archbishop Anba Antonious of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
- Archbishop Swerios Malki Murad of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate
- Archbishop Aba Embakob of the Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarchate
- Archbishop Joseph-Jules Zerey of the Melkite Catholic Patriarchate
- Archbishop Mosa el Hage of the Maronite Catholic Exarchate
- Archbishop Subeil Dawani of the Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East
- Bishop Munib Younan of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
- Bishop Pierre Malki of the Syrian Catholic Exarchate
- Msgr. George Dankaye of the Armenian Catholic Exarchate
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