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				<title>Message on the nuclear explosion at Fukushima</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/fukushima</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ It is with burdened and painful heart that the entire world is witnessing the drama of the tragic earthquake, which over the last days has afflicted Japan and cost numerous lives of our brothers and sisters. Moreover, it is with much anguish and sorrow that we behold the related devastation in the Land of the Rising Sun as well as in other nations of the Pacific. Every corner of the planet is offering prayers both for the repose of the departed souls and for the support of those who continue to be grieved and imperiled by the ensuing seismic tremors and ferocious tsunami. Lamentably, yet another calamitous consequence has struck the region with the explosion of the nuclear plant at Fukushima, rendering still more frightening the recent nightmare in Japan.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:14:25 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Address at the Thronal Feast of the Ecumenical Patriarchate</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/thronal-feast</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ It is with great joy that we greet your presence at the Thronal Feast of our Most Holy Church of Constantinople and express gratitude to our brother in the Lord, Pope Benedict XVI, who sent you here, for his gracious fraternal gesture through you to participate in this festive celebration of the sacred commemoration of the founder of the Church in Byzantium, St. Andrew the First-Called of the Apostles.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Address on Councils and Conciliarity</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/councils-conciliarity</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ It is with sincere joy that we accepted to address your international conference organized by the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace in the context of the year when Istanbul is celebrating its prominence as the cultural capital of Europe. This assembly is exploring the recent studies on the Councils of the Church with respect to new challenges that these present for theology and history. In this context, we shall also hear presentations about the extraordinary work of the Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta and the Mansi 3.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:27:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Message for the Day of the Protection of the Environment</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/2010-ecclesiastical-new-year</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Our ever-memorable predecessor, the late Patriarch Demetrios, who possessed a deep awareness of the gravity of the environmental crisis, as well as of the responsibility of the Church to directly and effectively confront the crisis, issued the first official encyclical dealing with the protection of the natural environment more than two decades ago.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:04:03 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Address at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/lublin</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The mission of your institution clearly states that: “The memory of our Patron requires from us a constant reflection upon John Paul II’s legacy and teaching.” For over a quarter of a century, the late Pope John Paul II shepherded the Church of Rome, standing as a symbol of unrelenting stability and hope in an age of widespread turmoil and despair. Undoubtedly, his tenure was inspired by an abiding faith as well as by the difficult circumstances that his home country Poland suffered for so many years under totalitarian oppression. This is an experience of martyrdom, with which the Orthodox Church can easily identify.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Address on receiving the Golden Cross of St. Basil the Great from the Cappadocian community </title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/golden-cross</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Our hearts are filled with profound emotion and joy, and we glorify the name of God, who has once again allowed us to realize our pilgrimage to the land of Basil the Great, of the two St. Gregories, those great beacons, and of a countless host of Righteous Fathers, Martyrs and Confessors glorified in this land.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:24:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Message for World Environment Day</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/2010worldenvironmentday</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Inasmuch as, at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, we have long been concerned about problems related to the preservation of the natural environment, we have ascertained that the fundamental cause of the abuse and destruction of the world’s natural resources is greed and the constant tendency toward unrestrained wealth by citizens in so-called “developed” nations.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:42:19 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Address at the Reception Held Upon the Patronal Feast of the Ecumenical Patriarchate </title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/address-at-the-reception-held-upon-the-patronal-feast-of-the-ecumenical-patriarchate</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ We cordially thank you for coming here and sharing in our joy and thereby increasing it. Indeed, joy grows greater when there are more to share in it, just as sorrow diminishes when its burden is shared by the friends of the sorrowing.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>At the Official Dinner in Honor of His All Holiness Hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/secretary-of-state-2009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ We rise to express our gratitude and profound sense of appreciation to you, Madame Secretary, for your hospitality to us and for this tribute to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. We rise to address you, not as another dignitary among so many, but as a fellow laborer in the vineyard of peace. We rise as one who honors your commitment to the work of reconciliation and expanding the scope of dignity and justice for the whole human family.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:50:20 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>At the Dinner in his Honor Hosted by Vice President Joseph R. Biden</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/vice-president-2009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Mr. Vice President, you are a person who has sought justice and fought for liberty throughout a lifetime of public service. Through tragedy and triumph, you have persevered with a constant awareness of those most in need, of those who are powerless, and those who live without hope. Your life story is truly an American story, filled with peaks of exemplary achievement, and valleys of loss and despair. But through them all, as you yourself have so movingly written, you have risen to every challenge and every occasion.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:44:38 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>At the Joint House and Senate Luncheon in his Honor</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/house-senate-luncheon-2009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Standing again in this Capitol – this people’s house of democracy and freedom – whose dome rises above every other building in this capital city of the American Nation, our mind travels back in time to twelve years ago, when both we and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople were honored by this august body with the Congressional Gold Medal.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:04:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Saving the Soul of the Planet</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/saving-the-soul-of-the-planet</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ At first glance, it may appear strange for the leader of a religious institution concerned with spiritual values to speak about the environment at a secular institution that deals with public policy. What exactly does preserving the planet or promoting democracy have to do with saving the soul or helping the poor?  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:34:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>A Changeless Faith for A Changing World</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/georgetown_2009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Address of His All Holiness at Georgetown University that discusses themes of non-violence, philanthropy in the form of healthcare, and the environment.    ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:44:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>At the General Reception and Dinner on the Occasion of the 18th Anniversary of His Enthronement</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/18th-anniversary-dinner</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ God is love. Eighteen years ago today, with these simple yet most profound words, the words of the Holy Evangelist John (I John 4:8), we inaugurated our Apostolic ministry as Ecumenical Patriarch. Today, our heart is full of gratitude as share this special occasion in our life as Ecumenical Patriarch with you, the blessed spiritual children of the Mother Church Constantinople.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Exhortation of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW to the Archdiocesan Council</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/goa-archdiocesan-council-2009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ It is indeed truly a joy to greet you this morning. For we recognize the earnest concern that each of you feel for the ongoing growth of our historical and sacred Archdiocese, as well as for the responsible ministry to the Orthodox Christian faithful throughout this blessed and unique nation. We can assure you that – in the Mother Church of Constantinople – we hear regularly of your achievements and take special pride in your fervent love for Christ and His teaching, as well as in your unfailing commitment to the mission of the Church in our modern society.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:17:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>At the 2009 Annual Archon Banquet Given in His Honor Order of Saint Andrew – Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/2009-archon-banquet</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Tonight, our Patriarchal and paternal heart is replete with fatherly pride and joy, as we behold the most honorable Order of Saint Andrew, Archons of our Ecumenical Patriarchate, and their love and extraordinary devotion to the Holy Mother and Great Church of Christ: our Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.   ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:43:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>At the Reception in His Honor at the Museum of Biblical Art Exhibition "Scripture, Image, Life: Orthodox Christianity"</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/mobia-2009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ We greet you this evening in the name of the Creator and Light of the world, our Lord, Jesus Christ, who commanded his Apostles to, “Go forth unto all nations, teaching them all that [He] had commanded.”  It is with a warm heart, much gratitude, and in the solidarity of the apostolic commission to share Christ’s Gospel with every person in every corner of the world that we thank the American Bible Society and the Museum of Biblical Art for honoring the ministry of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with such an extraordinary witness to the inexhaustible love with which God created the world.     ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Meeting with the Members Religious and Lay Leaders of the Jewish Community </title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/2009-parkeastsynagogue</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Yet, our visit here is more than simply a formality; it transcends a mere courteous visit of a Christian leader to a Jewish leader. Even as the successor of St. Peter, our brother, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, visited here last year, we also come, the successor of Peter’s earthly brother, the First-Called Apostle Saint Andrew, inspired by our fervent conviction that the most urgent task that lies before all faith communities is our global cooperation for the promotion of greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples, races and religions of our planet.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:08:00 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Introduction of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew by the Rev. Joseph M. McShane at the Ceremony for the Conferral of an Honorary Doctorate of Laws at Fordham University</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/introducton-of-ecumenical-patriarch-by-reverend-joseph-mcshane</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Your All Holiness, in the name of Christ our Savior, I welcome you to the University Church, this historic house of prayer that has stood at the center of the University's campus and mission since it was built by our founder, Archbishop John Hughes, in 1844.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:35:55 -0400</pubDate>
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				<title>Address of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: "Discerning God's Presence in the World"</title>
				<link>http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/discerning-gods-presence-in-the-world</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ It is with sincere gratitude that we accept this invaluable honor of being received into the doctoral college of this esteemed Jesuit school. We welcome this privilege as a recognition of the sacred ministry of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, an Apostolic institution with a history spanning seventeen centuries, throughout retaining its See in Constantinople.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:49:16 -0400</pubDate>
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