Sister Churches, joined in the martyrs’ blood, still witnesses of “new forms of persecution and oppression”. One of the strongest passages of the long message that the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, sent to Pope Francis for the Day of the patron saints, Peter and Paul, which will be attended, as usual, by a delegation from Fanar, is about the martyrs of the world’s persecuted and oppressed churches. The message was given this morning to the Pope by the archbishop, Job of Telmessos, co-president of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

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