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Athens News Agency: News in English, 00-12-26
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[01] Turkey-Orthodox Church-Meeting of Church leaders
[01] Turkey-Orthodox Church-Meeting of Church leaders
26/12/2000 20:50:06
ISTANBUL (ANA A. Kourkoulas) The leaders of all Orthodox Churches
held a liturgy service in the ruins of the Agia Sofia temple,
officiated by the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Vartholomeos on Tuesday
at Nice, Turkey, celebrating the closing of the second millenium since
the birth of Christ.
In a joint declaration, signed during their third meeting in Istanbul
and read at the end of the liturgy, the leaders called for unity of all
Christian Churches as well as unity of all people quoting the New
Testament verse ?there is no man or woman, no Jew or Gentile, no lord
or slave?.
In the same message, read from the temple - turned to museum - where
the first and seventh Ecumenical Synods of Christianity took place,
they condemned nationalist tendencies that have plagued the Orthodox
Churches from time to time.
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