Within his formal visit to Turkey, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Alain Juppe met with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew last Thursday evening, November17.
News Am reported that Turkish opposition MPs protested against Greeks celebrating a Holy Mass at the Palace of Ataturk on the occasion of the 20th anniversary from the election of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the ecclesiastic throne.
Members of a small parish in Vienna are outraged by Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn’s decision to hand over the church to the city’s Serbian-Orthodox community for free.
On November 17, 2011, the first meeting was held in Moscow by the working group on Church unity as the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion approaches.