Focolare Movement

Athenagoras I, Paul VI and Chiara Lubich

May 23, 2014

Jerusalem: Meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew I.

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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