Greek government welcomes decision on "Great and Sacred Synod" of Orthodox Churches, FM Venizelos says

20:05 10/3/2014 - Πηγή: E-Typos
The Greek government welcomes the decision to convene the “Great and Sacred Synod” in 2016 and is monitoring the situation in the Orthodox Churches with great interest, Government Vice-President and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos on Monday said regarding the decision to convene a “Great and Sacred Synod” of Orthodox Churches and on the freeing of the nuns from the St. Thekla Convent in Syria.

“The Synaxis of the Primates of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches, which took place in Istanbul, under the chairmanship of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, indicates the unity of Orthodox Christians in a world full of hotbeds of crisis, tension and war,” Venizelos said.

The minister also expressed the Greek government’s satisfaction at the release, following coordinated efforts, of the nuns abducted from the St. Thekla Convent in Maaloula last December and called on “all sides to intensify their efforts toward the location and release of the two abducted Bishops of Aleppo.”
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