Pat. Bartholomew’s speech, titled “Contradictions and Prerequisites of Interreligious Dialogue,” presented a framework for interfaith cooperation called the “Common Sacred Worldview.” This framework described “the Sacred itself, the ultimate, absolute reality, which is expressed in various ways, as God, Allah, Brahman or as the Luminous Void.”
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty announced during his official visit to Athens that Egypt and the Monastery of St. Catherine will soon sign an agreement, with Greece present as a witness, expressing his assessment that “there is absolute understanding about the developments on this issue.”
The local proclamation of the canonization of Sts. Cleopa (Ilie) and Paisie (Olaru) took place yesterday, August 7, at Sihăstria Monastery where they labored and were buried.
After nearly six years, the body of a man dubbed “Juneau John Doe” was identified as Archpriest Alexander Valentinovich Popov from near St. Petersburg, Russia, though his cause of death remains unclear.
His Eminence Metropolitan Dionysios of Corinth of the Orthodox Church of Greece reposed in the Lord yesterday at the age of 72.