Focolare Movement

Christians of the East and of the West

Oct 20, 2015

A video which relates the story of the relationship that exists between the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Focolare Movement, starting back from the profound encounters between Patriarch Athenagoras, Pope Paul VI and Chiara Lubich.

http://vimeo.com/95726085 Jerusalem, May 24th: the encounter with Pope Francis  and Patriarch Bartholomew recalls  the historic embrace of 50 years ago between Paul VI and the Ecumenical Patriarch  of Constantinople, Athenagoras I,  which was the start of a new page in history following centuries of separation. We retrace this unedited page in the history of ecumenical dialogue.


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